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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
That perfectly sums up unions. A group of thugs, organizing a group of uneducated nobodies, that force inefficiency and greater costs on a business and the consumer.
I have a lot of union members in my family and its horrible listening to them sit around trying to figure out how to do less work for more pay and explaining all day long how they are the victims, never "fairly" compensated etc.
My friend was managing a major remodel of the Edgewater Inn in Seattle and an electrical sub contractor was apparently using non union labor for their tiny piece of the job. So what happens? A bunch of uneducated, toothless turds stand out front of a very nice hotel with air horns trying to make customers stays as horrible as possible by blowing them day and night. They want the job, but they want to hurt the business as much as they can.
On the whole, unions are very corrosive and destructive. The lowest common denominator trying to steer a business.
Life is unfair. We have extensive labor laws. If people want a better job, if people want to be treated better, if you want everyone to bend to your will... then get a fucking education, risk your own capital and work 80-100hr weeks for a couple years while not paying yourself to make that dream happen.
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My brother has been in a union for 15 years and he talks all the time about the good and bad things. Luckily he has never really had to go on strike. The closest he came was when a fellow union was on strike at a job site, his union refused to work there. It took two days to get the situation resolved.
One of the things he hates is that guys that suck and don't work hard, or are just bad at the job, still end up sticking around. They might end up getting let go from one job, but they get put back on the list of guys waiting for work and end up being forced on another job. My brother is now a foreman and runs a pretty decent size crew. If he needs more guys he can call guys he knows and bring them in, but the union rules say for every two guys he "recruits" he has to take the next guy on the list. There have been a few cases where he knew the next guy on the list sucked so he just ran the crew a guy short until that guy was gone from the list so someone else got stuck with him. It is pretty sad when you are forced to hire shitty people.