A SICKING TALE OF THE UNION MENTALITY AT WORK

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[Rodney King]

A SICKING TALE OF THE UNION MENTALITY AT WORK

Matthew Barrick was eight years old when he died this past February. It was a brain aneurysm. Apparently Matthew was quite popular at the Roadoan Elementary School in Brooklyn. The funeral services were private, so an idea was hatched to plant a tree at the school in honor of Matthew.

The idea grew. Two local landscapers offered their help. Some local businesses like Home Depot got into the act. Soon about $3,000 in materials were obtained and the students gathered to plan the tree and do a little landscaping. They sang songs and wrote letters to Matthew.

Uh oh. It seems that some of the custodians at the school are upset. UNION custodians. You see, their duties include landscaping. They are not pleased that these students came over to the school to plant that tree in honor of a dead student. They want to be paid.

Yes --- you heard me right. The custodians want to be paid for the landscaping work. Never mind that they didn’t lift a finger. Never mind that the work didn’t cost them one single work hour at work. Goonion members Mark Hennings and Doug Scott want to be paid for the work. What’s more, they want to be paid at the time-and-a-half rate of $37 an hour because, after all, the volunteers did the work on a weekend!

The matter came up at a school board meeting in May. The union dopes insisted that the volunteer work violated their union contract. Other union members stood and applauded.

Now you see why I love unions so much?

[Rodney King]

Want to get paid for doing nothing? Join a union.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

My husband's company had a government contract a few years back. Because he had to hire Union workers and pay their scale, these "helpers" were making more than my husband on the job! lol

This story though, is worse than sad, it is pathetic.......

[RabidBartender]

Wow. This sickens me.

[E Rocc]

Boortz may actually have picked up on this story here. We had a pretty extensive thread on it awhile ago.

-Eric

[Valin]

I have two words for these union custodians. Care to guess what they are?

[Cuttnhorse]

This thread could go on for weeks if we start telling dumb union stories.....like the time in Butte, Montana, a strong union town, when the city awarded a large waste dump contract to a non-union company. As expected, the local unions were picketing and raising a stink because the city awarded the contract to a non-union company from another city. Weeeellll, it turns out, none of the local union-tied companies even bothered to bid on the job because they knew they could not compete. These guys constantly shoot themselves in the foot...or slightly higher.

[Psalm 73]

The only thing worse than a Union is a Management that makes one necessary.
I belonged to a Union (UAW) for 14 years, and spent 14 years' as non-union.
Conclusion? Power currupts, no matter WHO has it.
People are basically (to a greater or lesser degree) selfish, lazy, and evil (yes, even me).

[Rodney King]

Boortz may actually have picked up on this story here. We had a pretty extensive thread on it awhile ago

Oh, sorry, didn't mean to post it again.

[SauronOfMordor]

I was working at Pan Am Airlines in the eighties. Their computer operations was unionized by the Teamsters. Programmers were not allowed to use terminals to type in their programs -- they had to write the code down on paper and give it to the unionized keypunch operator to put on punchcards (any old geezers remember punchcards?), with 24-hour turnaround. I quit in disgust after 3 weeks. Pan Am went bust not too long after (I wonder why?)

In the 90's, I was working in a building in NYC. One guy got tired of waiting for the building guy to replace a burned-out light above his cube, so he got a florescent light out of the storeroom and fixed it himself. The building guy comes up to him and says "Hey! What are you doing? You're taking food out of my kids' mouths!" My friend replied: "Good. Your kids are too fat anyway". My friend got in trouble over that remark...

[bert]

We must not forget that it was union thugs who beat up the FReeper "Physicist" in Philadelphia prompting the March for Justice.

[FreeTally]

In the instance of wages, I believe the most pragmatic and realistic approach is to have the government pass fair wage laws.

I have no right to work for whatever wage I want? Your "fair wage" laws infringe on the right of contract.

[Rodney King]

I remember the 50's when most working class men, like my father, working 40 hours a week, earned enough to support a family of four, buy a small house and a decent little car, and took a family vacation to Florida every year.

Perhaps the problem is that in the 50's, despite high marginal tax rates, the government actually took very little of this average guys income. Now, it takes half. Maybe if the government didn't take half of everybody's money, things would return to the way they were.

In the instance of wages, I believe the most pragmatic and realistic approach is to have the government pass fair wage laws. A minimum living wage for any American working a 40 hour week, period. Beyond that, let the market rule.

The problem is that the labor of vast swathes of the population is not worth the "fair" wage. In which case none of them will be employed at all.

[biblewonk]

I do believe we need to regulate a minimum wage that is a living wage.

I can see right now yer mind ain't right.

[Cuttnhorse]

I do believe we need to regulate a minimum wage that is a living wage.

Just curious, who gets to decide what a living wage is??

[Old Fud]

Among my happiest moments in adult life was the day, this year, I sent my polite but scathing resignation to the musician's local. The president, a trumpet owning attorney, returned a reply that would make one wonder what century we're living in. Lot's of stuff like "If it weren't for union "influence", we wouldn't have publicly funded sports arenas -- the kinds of things we all benefit from".

Thieves.

[Rodney King]

We must not forget that it was union thugs who beat up the FReeper "Physicist" in Philadelphia prompting the March for Justice.

It wasn't Physicist, he was a witness. It was Don Adams.

[cascademountaineer]

A SICKING(sic) TALE OF THE UNION MENTALITY AT WORK

Mr. Boortz has apparently never heard of using spellcheck.

[Cuttnhorse]

Key words: Plumbers Crack
LOL!!!

[Rodney King]

Unfortunetly, mine is the only post that comes up when that keyword is clicked. We'll have to get some more in there.