A couple of wretches at work

[kap]

"...do we just go ahead believe kaps version as the gospel?"
Not necessary. I have revealed what I know. Back to the topic, I wish those two would just quit.

[haikuman]

I worked with two (Ladies/Licensed X Ray Techs ) at a Large Hospital.

They loved to go and do portables together where most Techs did these procedures alone.
They were buffoons and so incompetent it was amazing they were allowed to continue employment.
It was about the Union and being a State employee.

In one instance they went and took several films on different patients, they mixed up the flash cards
identifying the patients incorrectly. Fortunately the Radiologist who was reading the daily ICU films
caught this error. This is and was just one instance of there licensed incompetence.

Needless to say they drove me crrrrazzzzzy during my tenure at this institution *(:>*

I feel your pain kap ~!~

Rudie

[Rick-o]

WHiiP wrote:
The McClellan Committee and Labor Racketeering

Congress Considers the Unions.
The two most significant congressional probes of criminal activity during the 1950s were the Kefauver committee and the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor-Management Field, or the McClellan committee, after Arkansas senator John L. McClellan, the committee's chairman. The goal of the committee was to investigate allegations of corruption and abuse of power in the country's labor unions, especially the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the largest and strongest union in America. The investigation resulted in the prosecution and disgrace of more than a few top labor leaders. A round of housecleaning among the nation's unions followed, but the reputation of organized labor in America was seriously—and perhaps permanently—damaged.

http://www.enotes.com/1950-law-justice-a...cketeering

That's the best you can do? :nono:

enotes, eh? So I have to pay to see what they say? No thanks!! 8-)

Wikipedia has more info, and I don't have to pay to see it.

United States Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management

Only three of the committee's eight members looked on organized labor favorably, and only one of them (Senator Patrick McNamara) was strongly pro-labor.[3][18][19][20] The committee's other five members were strongly pro-management, and that included the Select Committee's Southern conservative chair,[21] John L. McClellan.[1][5][3] McClellan hired Robert F. Kennedy as the subcommittee's chief counsel and investigator.[2] Kennedy, too, did not have a neutral opinion of labor unions. Appalled by stories he had heard about union intimidation on the West Coast, Kennedy undertook the chief counsel's job determined to root out union malfeasance and with little knowledge or understanding of or even concern over management misbehavior.[4] The biases of the Select Committee members and its chief counsel, some observers concluded, led the committee to view corruption in labor-management relations as a problem with unions, not management, and management as nothing more than a victim.

Walter Reuther, President of the Auto Workers, told Select Committee investigators that the Kohler Company was committing numerous unfair labor practices against the union and that the union's books were in order.[5] Despite no evidence of any mismanagement or organized crime infiltration, Kennedy and McClellan went ahead with hearings on the UAW in February 1958. The five-week series of hearings produced no evidence of corruption.[5][57] A second set of hearings into the UAW in September 1959 lasted just six days, and once more uncovered no evidence of UAW malfeasance.[1][58] The September 1959 hearings were the last public hearings the embarrassed committee ever held.[5]

[Uncle Wig]

Paul F. wrote:
Why do you need a union to "protect" you from a bad employer?
Find a new employer...

A naive fantasy in many real-world situations.