Mr. Obstructionist is silenced.
More aptly, he is neutered! Thenin 2004, bye-bye Jerk !
Posted on 08/31/2002 5:06:13 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim
Short, pencil-necked, and Lib'ral ain't no way to go thru Life...LOL!!
FReegards...MUD
More aptly, he is neutered! Then
Here's where your *idealism* & lack of years betrays you, bucko.
It never works like that.
YOU & I will be made to pay when the government employee *strikes* & shuts this monster down.
Believe me a *good* POTUS -- like RReagan, for example -- will take [that] strike opportunity to *break* the back of the union(s) who're participating.
But...in this day & age think there's anybody with stones big enough to do that kinda thing, anymore??
Yea, right.
*Part* of what'd these striking government unions will be asking for is an iron-clad, no union busting contract on top of job security guarentees they already have so long as they do the bare minimum requirement(s)?
"Why, though?! Why does a good carpenter or a good pipefitter need someone else negotiating his/her compensation?"
Because that's a tradesman's choice in America; not, your's *or* mine. OK?
I say make their choice a LOT less attractive when compared to something else -- "free market" -- & these people will change of their own free will.
Or, I'd like to believe that, anyway.
"Collective Bargaining is fer LOSERS!!"
Agree totally; and, that is our opinion.
"Non-Union shops that allow their employees to buy into the profitability of their company is much-preferred, and it doesn't preclude apprenticeships or the same quality finished product...you just rid yerself of the middleman Union shop overhead and it's Socialist Agenda!!"
Great & creative ideas abound to counter the unions; no argument from me on that account.
I'm also well aware of the existance of "Employee Owned" organizations offering "Profit Sharing" plans of every description as incentives, who're doing quite well; however, these EO businesses are -- for whatever reason(s) -- never in the "trades," Mud & you'll certainly NOT see these arrangements permitted with the governmental unions, either.
Wanna bet? :o)
In fact?
It was just such a "plan" I worked with as a USW member; which, was part of our contract.
The $$ incentives resulted in one union "brother" tattling on another union brother for any behavior which might result in a cut in "Ratio Premium" bonus money the rest of us stood to make, too.
Rare for a union shop of any kind to see that, y'know; but, the company LOVED it!.
...& just another reason for unions to be looking over their shoulders; they're obsolete.
Knock, knock! Secret Service!
I would link to the Clinton Body Count article, but it appears to have been deleted. So, who's fearin' fer his life around here?!?
FReegards...MUD
Alright, he's an anti-American PowerWhore who preys upon--and fraudulently reinforces--the deepest fears of the weakest in our society to line his own pocketbook--via his wife--and to buttress his understandably lacking sense of self-worth!!
Most Lib'ral Elites are like that...MUD
SHEEEESH, not y'all again...MUD
I agree...MUD
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