More about being SICK of unions
The good news is the strike is over. The bad news is the vote to go back to work was 51% so there are 49% are not happy and are already calling the 51% names (such as spineless). So they may be too busy harrassing each other to pick on the rest of us. YAY!
This is from a comment section on my local newspaper website. It sums it up pretty well. "Unions are obsolete. In the past the unions assured good working conditions, safety and proper salaries. That power has created a monster that had traded places with the company and the unions became the bully. Now OSHA assures worker safety, the Dept of Labor assures wages and the market creates the jobs. Unions have driven product prices up because companies have to compensate for higher than usual wages and cost of fighting those unions. Workers are on pins and needles because if there isn't enough toilet paper in the bathrooms the union may strike. I don't see what benefit in hijacking a workplace with a strike has except forcing the employer's hand. Bobcat is a very large international company and closing Bismarck and/or Gwinner is no skin off their teeth. But it will be a major loss for both communities. This is all done while the union bosses roll in the $32/mo dues while those paying them are not really benefiting from being in that union. The negotiated contract has you working a 72 hour, six day work week. Sure getting a bloated $20/hr for a union job is great, but if as a union member I am striking all the time, the hourly wage drops really fast. I work a job for $11/hour, and I am very comfortable, have all I need (the key word is 'need', not what I want) and I work a 40 hour week, 5 days a week, have 2 weeks vacation a year, great health benefits, vision, dental, pharmacy coverage and I never have to stand in the snow holding a picket sign. I don't get harassed when I go to work, and my job never ends up on one of these comment boards."
This is from a comment section on my local newspaper website. It sums it up pretty well. "Unions are obsolete. In the past the unions assured good working conditions, safety and proper salaries. That power has created a monster that had traded places with the company and the unions became the bully. Now OSHA assures worker safety, the Dept of Labor assures wages and the market creates the jobs. Unions have driven product prices up because companies have to compensate for higher than usual wages and cost of fighting those unions. Workers are on pins and needles because if there isn't enough toilet paper in the bathrooms the union may strike. I don't see what benefit in hijacking a workplace with a strike has except forcing the employer's hand. Bobcat is a very large international company and closing Bismarck and/or Gwinner is no skin off their teeth. But it will be a major loss for both communities. This is all done while the union bosses roll in the $32/mo dues while those paying them are not really benefiting from being in that union. The negotiated contract has you working a 72 hour, six day work week. Sure getting a bloated $20/hr for a union job is great, but if as a union member I am striking all the time, the hourly wage drops really fast. I work a job for $11/hour, and I am very comfortable, have all I need (the key word is 'need', not what I want) and I work a 40 hour week, 5 days a week, have 2 weeks vacation a year, great health benefits, vision, dental, pharmacy coverage and I never have to stand in the snow holding a picket sign. I don't get harassed when I go to work, and my job never ends up on one of these comment boards."
posted by ~ Tarra ~ @ 1:16 PM
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