11-23-2008, 02:47 AM
Dakota wrote:
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Given the anti-union government we've had for the last several years and the anti-union sentiment engendered by the auto industry, perhaps it's time for unions to have a resurgence in this country.
To accomplish what? What is the hourly wage+benefit to tighten wheel lugs?
You work in a big building ? Ever wonder who hung the iron so it doesn't fall down, wire the electrical
so you aren't electrocuted, laid the plumbing so you don't have gas explosions ?
You worried about the boilers in your building blowing up ? What about that bridge on the interstate you drive home on.
Ever wonder who framed the forms for the concrete in that parking garage where you parked and who
was in charge when they poured the concrete in sub zero weather - making sure it cured properly ?
You ever spent any time on a factory floor ? If so what is you real experience with unions?
What about that guy running a train, or driving a bus, driving a tractor trailer - do you care how
many hours in a row they have worked and how much rest they have received ?
My impression is that people that spend their life sitting on their butt in an office have no concept of
what it is to work in a dirty dangerous situation and have never seen someone killed on the job
due to gross negligence and indifference.
Pick on the autoworker, the teachers and any other unions you like but it just shows ignorance.
I have friends in the auto industry working in a modern non-union plant (Subaru/Toyota)
It is a clean, safe, modern plant and the workers there make a good decent wage with benefits.
How are they able to do this ? Because the UAW is constantly on the prowl to unionize them and the
plants management knows this and will pay prevailing wage to keep the unions out.
The lugnut joke was funny - big laughs. I'll pass it along to my buddy that sews up the guys that
work in a trailer factory here that are constantly losing body parts to machines that have safety issues.
They should probably call OSHA but there is no union to protect them for being squealers.