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Ah yes blame the workers.
Nice try, capitalism!
Nice try, capitalism!
There might be some good union workers but there are a whole lot more lazy ones. Union hacks are one of the reasons I won't buy American cars any more. I just don't trust anything made by these people.
If unions aren't necessary, why are big corporations so anti-union and pro govt handouts for their employees? I'm talking about Wal-Mart and Amazon. Wal-Mart specifically will post materials to educate their employees how to get govt benefits. Tell me more about how unions aren't necessary. You probably believe Henry Ford was some benevolent leader too.Fuck Unions
They used to be necessary. Now they are not, they are merely political tools.
Except your not screwing over your boss , your screwing over other trades and people working towards the same common goal. Spoken like a person who's never lifted a tool or been on a jobsite in his life.When you don’t let industry exploit your labor you’re labeled “lazy” to try and smear you and your profession.
when you don’t allow higher ups to take advantage of you they say you’re “difficult.”
people say “well a union guy won’t do any extra work.” And I say “today’s favor becomes tomorrow’s responsibility.” The line will never be drawn in the sand and one day youll wake up years later and you’re doing hundreds of extra “favors” for multi millionaires who don’t think you should be paid for it.
More productivity means more money in the workers pocket. Millionaires don’t do “favors” and neither should labor.
The backups at the ports are due to there not being enough rail cars and trucks. They can unload the ships all they want, but there is nowhere to put the stuff. I have family members who are longshoremen, and they cannot get the normal rail cars and trucks to the west coast. All their storage lots and warehouses are full, so they cannot unload more and until they have space. Trucking companies are paying insane wages right now, but they cannot get enough people.
Except your not screwing over your boss , your screwing over other trades and people working towards the same common goal. Spoken like a person who's never lifted a tool or been on a jobsite in his life.
When in the flying fuck did I suggest having a carpenter do a graders job and vice versa ? We're you looking to just yell into air ? If I'm ready to complete my job and can't because the union electricians don't work Friday , well that's fucking bullshit.Bullshit. All trades have to stay in their lane. If a union carpenter decides he can run a dozer and do all the site grading that’s taking work from a dirt contractor and a union equipment operator.
If I’m scheduled to do backfilling on interior forms on a building pad and the concrete boys don’t have their forms stripped and I decide to go above and beyond and strip their forms, so I can backfill and keep the schedule up to date, And say some of the forms have wear or damage they can take pictures and claim I damaged em and make an complaint to a general where then my contractor has to cover the costs for new forms.
You have no idea of the political positioning and in fighting that goes on during a job.
If I do a task outside of my regular job, my contractor can charge the general an extra charge on top of the original bid. Change orders make contractors money. If I tell my contractor “hey I’m not a de-watering laborerI’m an operator”, they’ll fire me. However if I supply my own tools and do go above and beyond do I have the ability to slap my contractor with an extra charge? No I do not
Furthermore unions set the pay scale standards for EVERYONE. Wanna go work for a non-union outfit? Guess what gives you bargaining power? The fact that a union set a wage standard in that industry.
@Fedorgasm and all you people bitching haven’t a fucking clue about the history of labor or are aware of the people who fought and died for a middle class.
Bunch of trust fund pussies in here. If being a crane operator is soooo lucrative and easy go fucking be one for 7 years and let me know if you think your wages and benefits should cease to exist.
Cause I’ll tell you right now there’s a huge fucking demand for them a shortage and most generals I talk to would never sub out that type of work to illegal immigration outfits.
When in the flying fuck did I suggest having a carpenter do a graders job and vice versa ? We're you looking to just yell into air ?
Except your not screwing over your boss , your screwing over other trades and people working towards the same common goal. Spoken like a person who's never lifted a tool or been on a jobsite in his life.
Dude be real.
any environment where it’s hard to get fired is going to have a higher percentage of lazy workers than an environment where it’s easy to get fired.
I don’t think all Union workers are lazy and if you’re an exception then good on you, but most Union workers are certainly lazier than their non-Union counterparts.
Union workers aren’t lazy.
This.Unions are a mixed bag of lazy as ever loving fuck and hard working. The problem is that lazy guy makes the same as the skilled/competent/ hardworking guy , and that's just bad for business. God forbid you need something from them at the end of the day or before break/lunch. These guys literally drop their tools on the second and leave
As a unionized member for the last 13 years I can tell you that your statement is 10000000000% false.
If I was the manager of our shop, I'd fire at least 40 of the 120 guys we have working there. The only reason they still have their jobs is because how hard it is to fire them, due to being in a union.
These 40 fucks are the most intentionally lazy, sloth like pieces of human shit and an embarrassment to the company and our customers.
You couldn't be more wrong.