Certainly! Our employees were the highest paid techs in the area, had the best health care, got to drive company trucks home, and could be fired if they didn't do their jobs right. My pay was more than $3 an hour higher than anyone in any of the union shops. As usual, you union maggots can't see reality for your greed.
So it isn't their fault that they are ignorant? Then where do YOU lay the blame? Public schools? their parents? I KNOW! They were unloved as a child and refused to learn anything, just to show up their parents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See? You are making more unfounded ASS-umptions. The company hired an new executive VP who decided to close the in house service department. Both techs were to be transferred to field work, and because of my health I could not climb poles on climbing hooks. I was made a promise that I would NEVER have to climb a pole, and had one of the bucket trucks available for special projects. It was no longer the company I had agreed to work for, so I was man enough to leave. You ass kissing union losers would have walked out on strike, because you can't think for yourself. Also, I wanted to leave the area to be closer to family, all of who lived in Florida.
Just the twisted communist view I expected from a union flunky. The owners were fed up with the union forcing them to keep thieves and useless workers on the payroll, so they sold out. It was the Middletown Armco steel mill, the first computer controlled steel mill in the United States. It was built in the early '60s at a cost of over 1.2 Billion dollars. The 'union' construction company managed to turn a 600 million dollar project into one with an over 100 percent cost overrun. The workers were well paid, because most of the jobs were technical, not grunt work like their original 100 year old mill.
AK Steel, the new owners wanted to close the plant because they could make steel cheaper in Japan, even though the quality was lower. The plant needed some upgrades, but all the money Armco needed to stay competitive was being bled from their bank accounts by the deadwood the union demanded they keep on their payroll.
Middletown WAS a very nice place to live, till the greedy union bastards slit their own throats. The ripple effect on the support industries hurt about 200,000 people.
You're welcome. I studied hard to learn to talk like a union member.
A clear sign of someone who knows their union arguments are shaky and resorts to name calling.
See above.
Show everyone where I EVER made that claim. I was pissed by the early imports of Japanese 'crap-tronics' when it hit our shores, over 40 years ago. No one listened, because the stuff was CHEAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They could save 30% or more, and have it right now even if it failed within a year.
You are an example of someone who only see what he wants to, and tells lies to make his point. No one should be guaranteed a job for life, or be protected from being fired for stealing, doing shoddy or no work at all.
Unions are greedy and have caused a lot of businesses to close. For example: A corporation owned about 20 paper mills across the US. 19 were making decent profits, and the other was hemorrhaging losses. The workers complained about everything, and never admitted their screw ups. The machinery is too old! (It was newer than most of the other plants.) The raw material is no good. (The other plants used the same materials from the same sources.) It wasn't their fault they were late or absent from the job several times a week, blah, blah, blah.
The president of the company moved to Middletown, Ohio to try to straighten it out. After a few months of their constant whining, they told him they were going union. He showed them that they were already better paid that the union people working in other local paper mills and he was not going to put up with another layer of problems, that if they formed a union, he was closing the plant and splitting their work between two of their other plants in the region.
They told him he was bluffing. A few days later they walked into his office and dropped the union papers on his desk. He picked up his phone and announced the plant was closed, and that people only had five minutes to remove their personal property.
All of a sudden they were making all kinds of promises, offered to tear up the union papers, but the place was closed and padlocked. It cost his company less for additional shipping from the other plants to their customers, than the expense of trying to keep that plant open. No one got transferred to another plant.
Fast forward a decade: Another local paper plant burnt one night, and made the national news. The president that had closed that mill flew into town the next morning to deliver the keys to his closed plant. It opened a few days later, with same machinery. Within a few weeks they were producing more than three times the paper the former workers ever did.