Lu Powell wrote:

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Lu Powell wrote:

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Lu Powell wrote:
Jesus and a Union Guy

Two managers and a union worker were fishing on a lake one day,
when Jesus walked across the water and joined them in the boat.

When the three astonished men had settled down enough to speak, the
first guy asked humbly, "Jesus, I've suffered from back pain ever
since I took shrapnel in the Vietnam war...could you help me?" "Of
course, my son", Jesus said, and when he touched the man's back, he
felt relief for the first time in years. The second man, who wore
very thick glasses and had a hard time reading and driving, asked
if Jesus could do anything about his eyesight. Jesus smiled,
removed the man's glasses and tossed them in the lake. When they
hit the water, the man's eyes cleared and he could see everything
distinctly.

When Jesus turned to heal the union worker, the guy put his hands
up and cried defensively, "Don't touch me! I'm on long term
disability."




I see it's easy for you to make snap judgments about other people. I
have no prejudices against working people, having been one myself for
many years. Born to a sharecropper, I was first in my extended family
to finish high school and college. What I saw of unionists was my
father working for starvation wages for the railroads, paying his
required union dues, and getting little in return. Union stewards
didn't look out for the working men; they feathered their own nests.

My father taught me the value of honesty and hard work, which has
served me well. I was in a western police department and saw the
growth of police unions. At first, the union was a valid and
necessary answer to poor management, which is the usual case. Then,
as it matured the union grew fat and lazy. It no longer served its
membership, and was nearly unseated by a more militant union. The end
result was an unlawful police strike that lasted for almost two
weeks. When the members returned to work, the union settled on a
contract that was LESS than the city's final offer before the members
hit the bricks. The wages lost during the strike took three years to
recoup after the strike. The union officials were replaced by more
reasonable persons, who themselves became fat and lazy.

When I retired as assistant chief of police years later, the union
was spending huge amounts of money to keep incompetent police
officers from being fired. It was so bad, the union trustees forced
the resignation of the president and his henchmen. I went on to serve
as police chief in two southern police departments.

Am I prejudiced about unionists? Nope. I know them first hand for
what they evolve into.

Be that as it may, I'm not interested in a ****ing contest. If you
don't like my postings, put me in your kill file, like I did to Hairy
Harry Krause.
Pure BS
My Father was a sharecropper prior to his entry into the Army in 37.
He worked in a factory from 49 until 82. He was in a Union. He enjoyed
the average wage and benefits and the negotiating power of the union
for a fair shake. If not for the Union he would have been treated like
what we see in so many cases today: variable hours, underpay, little
benefits or none and no pension.
You got your bs from TV.

See my previous post.
little hasty in being to condemning.
I myself was on the other side of the table. We however did not have
acrimoniously relationship with our Employees. We hoped Corporate would
give them more. Everything they got we got.
W gave green stamps for no injuries on the job. We gave Turkeys and Hams
at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Everybody had the first two weeks of July
off for vacation.
Employer relations with its workers no are more strained. Wall Street is
not into producing anything or understanding manufacturing or anything
else. They would seek slave labor if they could. They seem to be trying
anyway.
My better half works at a very technical very involved job requiring a
lot of intuitiveness and ability to keep the the systems up. The new
attitudes introduced by Wall Street is driving them off and killing the
Company. The Company made record profits last year and before. Without a
Union they would be in the s***er.
Unions as any type organization have a lot of differences from one to
the other. To condemn Unions because of perceived or real excesses of
one is a disservice to Workers who are the Union.
The Global Corporate World is trying to destroy Unions and reintroduce
slave labor at whatever level it can get away with.
Maximum profits is the only moral or immoral imperative they recognize
and the People that make them the money are being regarded more and more
as cattle. Unions helped many Americans realize the American Dream.
The American Dream is not about the Global Corporate elites. It is about
Americans achieving the American Dream not living hand to mouth. The
Unions have been the only thing to keep Americans out of the Feudalistic
dream of the realitive hand full of Global Ruling Economic Aristocracy.
If that bunch hadn't had their hands on the throttle the last several
years this recession and everybody's lives wouldn't have been turned
topsy turvy. No more Corporatism. Get the Lobbyists out of Washington.
Public only financing of political campaigns. Get the Global/Foreign
Merchants and Bankers out of our Government and return our prosperity.








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