Labor unions prevent nonunion power workers from helping in NJ.

I'd say my main issue with unions is not that they protect lazy workers. I think Bgfrn is right there. The employer hires people and not the unions and there's only so much a union can do to protect nonproductive people. My biggest beef against unions is that they can be breeding dens for mediocrity. Kinda like working for the government.

My company uses union workers. They either produce & work safely or they get fired, just like nonunion workers.
 
Simply denying the story doesn't make you right.

The other side

The general manager of Decatur Utilities, Ray Hardin told Fox Business they were presented documents from the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers at a staging area in Virginia. The documents stated they had to affiliate with a union to work, which the crews could not agree to.
Hardin said the crews were not turned away but were made to believe that affiliating with the union was a requirement to work.
"It was and remains our understanding that agreeing to those requirements was a condition of being allowed to work in those areas," said Hardin.


The crew attempted to look for work in other areas but because a resolution could not be reached, they made the decision late Thursday night to return home.

Moore said they're frustrated being told "thanks, but no thanks."

http://www.waff.com/story/19981857/decatur-utilities-crews-home-after-issues-with-union

Updated: Nov 02, 2012 3:50 PM EDT


If it was actually debunked it was debunked. I posted a news story.
 
My company uses union workers. They either produce & work safely or they get fired, just like nonunion workers.
I've worked on plenty of Union shops. It's pretty much the same there as anywhere. You don't work, you get fired. You may get more second chances than an at will employe and they can't just fire you for any reason what so ever like an at will employee but if you don't work, your gone. There are all sorts of advantages of belonging to a union if your unskilled or work a skilled trade. The real serious disadvantage is you probably don't want to belong to one if your very ambitious. Having said that, if I were skilled in a trade and I had no ambition other than to apply my trade at the highest level, it would probably be to your advantage to belong to a trade union. You'd not only have the protections of belonging to a union but you'd have more opportunity to succeed as you would have the opportuity to obtain the mentoring and apprenticeships needed to aquire journeyman and then master tradesman status. You're economic outlook would be a whole lot brighter as most master tradesman make as much more than people with Bachelor degrees in science and technology.
 
Point to note.
Unions are neither political organisation or labour representative organisations, they are little more than gangs.
Just as street gangs use violence to protect their turf, unions use violence to protect their niche, even if others suffer as a result.
 
Point to note. Unions are neither political organisation or labour representative organisations, they are little more than gangs. Just as street gangs use violence to protect their turf, unions use violence to protect their niche, even if others suffer as a result.

Maybe that's true in Limeyland.
 
Maybe that's true in Limeyland.
In the UK the unions have little power beyond thst of collective bargaining Maggie made sure of this.

I'm referring to US unions and their violent intolerance of all but their own local.

Look at the violent behaviour of 2 SNA members toward Douglas Kennedy last January, just because he worked for Fox.
 
In the UK the unions have little power beyond thst of collective bargaining Maggie made sure of this. I'm referring to US unions and their violent intolerance of all but their own local. Look at the violent behaviour of 2 SNA members toward Douglas Kennedy last January, just because he worked for Fox.

This is America.

This is an American political forum.

Who gives a fuck about "Maggie" or anything connected with a tiny, impoverished third world shithole like England?
 
This is America.

This is an American political forum.

Who gives a fuck about "Maggie" or anything connected with a tiny, impoverished third world shithole like England?
Why then did you introduce the UK into the debate?
 
Are you pretending to be an American?
No.
I'm not American, I'm English.
I reside in Boston Massachusetts.
What's your point and again if you don't wish to discuss the UK why would YOU introduce the UK into the debate?
 
No. I'm not American, I'm English. I reside in Boston Massachusetts. What's your point and again if you don't wish to discuss the UK why would YOU introduce the UK into the debate?

American politics is none of your fucking business, then, is it?

By the by, you may want to start referring to the FUK (Formerly-United Kingdom) since the Scots want independence.

Now, fuck off.
 
American politics is none of your fucking business, then, is it?

By the by, you may want to start referring to the FUK (Formerly-United Kingdom) since the Scots want independence.

Now, fuck off.
Yes it is my buisness. I live, do buisness, pay tax, have a family in the USA.

What is it that makes you so angry?
Do you have something missing in your life?
Is that why you act out and rant like a petulant child?
 
I thought you had no interest in UK politics?
Why do you keep throwing the subject into the debate?
 
Yes it is my buisness. I live, do buisness, pay tax, have a family in the USA.
What is it that makes you so angry? Do you have something missing in your life? Is that why you act out and rant like a petulant child?

Who's angry? Slimy Limeys like you who sponge off America's greatness provide me with rich fodder for mockery.
 
This is America.

This is an American political forum.

Who gives a fuck about "Maggie" or anything connected with a tiny, impoverished third world shithole like England?
It appears you did say that.
I'm contributing to the USA, as did my mother, a US Citizen!
 
You have such class. Typical of a vicious, fanatical liberal totalitarian.

So you admit you lied, and your mum was raped by an Englishman?

I'm not a liberal. I'm an American.

Are you in this country legally?
 
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