Posted by Mike (WA) on February 25, 2015 at 17:46:33 from (174.31.192.111):
In Reply to: Right to Work. posted by lfure on February 25, 2015 at 14:36:12:
No, you need not say more, in fact, you should probably say less. Why is it that the union hacks are always "all or nothing"- either its union labor at $36 per hour plus all the shovel leaning you can stand, or its non-union, with 7 year olds being plucked out of school so they can work 16 hour days for 89 cents an hour, just to keep their little sisters from being sold into white slavery? How about a happy medium- laborers making $20 bucks, which is a living wage, and being satisfied with it? Why do the unions have to keep pushing for more? Just because they can? Where is the equity in that?
Longshoremen (biggest legal crooks on the face of the earth) just "settled" their long-running dispute in the western ports. They were slowing down the work, to the tune of billions of dollars in losses for their customers. They all make more than $50 an hour already, and got raises for the next 3 years. Also got continued full health care paid by the employer, and got their pensions raised from $80,000 per year to $91,000 per year. I've never seen a longshoreman who was more than 2 notches above moron, so why should they make out like that? Do any of the rest of us, regardless of education or ability, get those kind of bennies? And no fair citing their union membership as the reason- they have done nothing to earn it, and to say they can hold you up just because they have a gun and you don't doesn't cut it.
I did have one small moment of payback, years ago. I was working for Farm Credit, and a longshoreman came in with a plan for a hog finishing operation. He was going to feed "spillage" from the grain terminal in Kalama, Washington. I asked "What if there isn't enough spillage?" He laughed and said, "He He, there's always enough spillage. He He." I turned him down on the spot, telling him that I couldn't approve a farming operation that was based on theft. He blustered around, and threatened to go to my superior. I said "Good luck, he's even more honest than me."
Unions had their place at the time, but their time is long since past.
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