During the latest contract talks they constantly complained how management was unresponsive. Well, it took them almost a full year after the contract was voted on and approved to actually mail it out to members. When I tried calling them about it they hung up.

marxists believe that the entire world is Europe in the 1800s.

Unions seem to believe the same thing. (Wait, they are marxists.)

My bosses rock, by the way! I love my employer, and they love (genuinely love) their employees. (No, I am not related to them.)
If some union loser came by, I would have to try hard not to curse him out. I have a sweet deal, and I don’t want some loser outsider to mess it up.

It did not matter what the rank-and-file thought or wanted. These leaders continued to emulate the D.C. power brokers by passing on short-term gains to their constituents at the cost of long-term failure. You might say they learned the D.C. shuffle all too well.

So here we have the crossroads for the unions. The unsustainable contracts devised are snuffing out the very businesses they supply labor for. These businesses are not without fault as they accepted the contracts even though returns have proven too high a cost. With normal people in a position like this, there is some form of compromise. But compromise in this arena displays weakness and egos involved won’t allow that. Result: the rank-and-file go to the unemployment lines when the business goes under or moves offshore. This is how the union watches out for its members.

So the union bosses continue to demand more than a business can pay: bye, bye business (unless your name is GM and you can get bailout money to delay the inevitable).

Sad to say, but Congress is also paralleling this. Demanding more of the business owners (taxpayers) than they are willing or able to pay. The government would have fallen earlier, except for an uneducated electorate and the ability to print money.

On March 27th, 2009 at 5:43 pm, torabora said:
We have Unions because management is awful…but that doesn’t make Union management immune either

Pardon my ignorance here – but exactly how has a union fixed/corrected/improved “awful” management?
I might suggest that exactly the opposite effect is generally achieved – management gets with more union activity.

* The Steel Industry
* The Auto Industry
* Manufacturing like CAT
* State & Municipal Employees
* Railroads or what is left of them

***All broken or on Bailout now.

Things that built America but have raised up the Entitlement Generation in blue collar America. They see it all washed out from under their feet because the Unions killed Industry and they see Business walking away from un-profitable enterprises and their Union dues got Socialists elected to Congress and the Presidency.

Retirement Funds and 401k accounts, health care benefits are tanking big time. Banks failing and the greatest budget deficits in the history of humanity.

Misplaced trust. Hope & Change my As*!
Look for $10.00 loaves of bread and $10.00 gallons of milk soon. Un-Employment at 25% before 2010.
Gasoline at 8 to 10 bucks a gallon.
Social Security is Broke.

Predicted here now.

Unions elected those that are Elite, the ones that are raping, plundering and pillaging the Treasury now.

Yeah, Unions. Thanks!