Who paid to get these guys in office? If you are seriously so naive here is the top 50 donor list for lobbying from 1989-2012. Guess how many Unions are in the top 20 and interestingly there is only one Right leaning corporation in the top 20. You might want to research the link below and see where money is really going http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A
I only have one thing to say. Back when I worked in a union shop Bill Clinton was running for president. The IAM endorsed him. He was from Arkansas, a frigging "Right to Work" state. End of argument!
I am 30 years old. I have been working in factories (engineering office) for 12 years. I am at my 4 company. The previous were closed. Why? Unions. At my previous employer, it was $170 per unit to produce in Alabama where they had a right to work law. When the company went on strike, the doors were closed immediately. The worst part is that the plant that went on strike was in Iowa. GM really lost face here a few months ago. They had to close a shop in Kokomo because the union refused to make concessions that would reduce their salary to $14 to $20 / hr. I'm now at a company that is non union. We are one of the largest manufacturing plants in the state. When the economy tanked, instead of laying off half the people like the company across the street did, everyone took concessions, nobody was fired.
I would just like to state that I hate union workers probably more than anything on this planet. Good day.
My best friend lost his job, salary worker and a great guy. Sad day being he is near 60 he will have a hard time finding a job. Sad day
Was the contract they signed in 2011 had pay cuts in it, but was it not the case GM had to bring more work in the plant for those cuts to take effect? If no new work then the pay cuts would not happen?
Unions at one time were beneficial to the workers. Now, they are nothing more than instruments to continually demand more out the employers. When they demand more, the employer has to raise the cost of goods to continue to keep stockholders happy. When the cost of goods reaches a certain point, it is no longer cost effective to buy that product made in America which not only jeopardizes the company, but the welfare of all the employees. So what does the company do? It outsources to a foreign country where workers are not as greedy and the profit margin is re-established. Perfect example is all the unemployed auto workers that worked for the American companies. Yet the non-unionized Toyota plants in America continue to grow and employ more and more.
Unions had their time years ago. Not anymore thank god. The plant I haul milk to Is a union plant. This plant Is the 5th biggest cheese maker In the USA. This union went on strike In 1997. In went on for 3 weeks. It almost took the plant down with them. They (the union) ended up loosing over 100 truck driving jobs. It was dumb on their part to strike but you can thank a greedy union leader for that. These same employee's now say It was the dumbest thing they could've done by striking In 1997. It's too bad It took a wake up call and a big loss of jobs to realize that. This union was the teamsters. Unions all too often protect Idiots with jobs. I could name 50 people at this plant that would be fired In no time If this plant was non union. That's my biggest ***** with unions other then that they demand too much money out of some company's that can't afford It. Anyone who says non union places don't look out for their employee's or the fact that they can fire someone/anyone for any reason needs an eye opener. As a business owner myself you can't just fire someone for no reason. You need cause. My *** would be In trouble If I did just that without cause. I think It's somewhere In North or South Dakota right now where a huge union Is striking at a plant. It's been going on for a while now. It's not looking good the last time I checked for the union. The union guys at the milk plant have commented on this a quite of bit and have said what a bunch of dumb ***'s. Their exact other words were go sign the damn contract and be happy you have a job In this ****ty economy. Lesson learned with these cheese plant workers. At least the majority of the union workers at the cheese plant here have the balls to say they screwed up. You don't here union workers admit to that very often.
Just South of Wisconsin, in Aurora, IL (Western suburb of Chicago), the UAW is striking a Caterpillar factory. These morons must not be able to read: Caterpillar is building a factory in North Carolina which will build the exact vehicles and equipment that the Aurora plant builds. The reason for the new plant is increased demand. Anyone want to bet the size of the new plant gets increased by 50%, or a third shift added once it is finished? Then the Aurora plant can be shut down and the union get a long (unpaid) vacation.
So we agree. Unions suck and there is no longer a need for them. (unless you want a forced funding entity for the Democrat party)
I heard union workers hate babies, kittens and cute puppies. They will also knock over an old lady cross a street and steal little kids lunch money. There new slogan should be "These guys suck" It does feel good to knock others down from above
People have a God given right to organize, protest, form "unions", and whatever else in attempts to put pressure on others to bend to their will. With that being said, those same groups/unions need to realize this America, not some socialist/communist country where the workers dictate. The people who actually own and run the company make the decisions. If you don't like it quit the company, continue lobbying yet accept the decisions from the higher ups, or educate yourself so that you have more options in life.
I work for a fairly large, privately owned company. Probably 3000-4000 employees in about every state. We have about 5 major manufacturing plants throughout the country. One of the oldest one was down in Alabama, and was still Union. I think they might have been the only Union plant. They went into negotiations on a new contract, and would not compromise. Our company tried to work with these people, but they wanted more and more, more than other non-union plants were getting. Our owners said fine, we are closing this plant and if any other plant attempts to form a Union, we will close that plant as well. Didn't work out so well for the 200-300 employees at that plant. If you ask any worker in our non-union plants, they will tell you that our company is a great company to work for and they really do enjoy working here. Lesson: Work with and for your employer, not against them and they will treat you right.
