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On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:22:58 -0500, BAR wrote:

Union labor strives for mediocraty. There is not motivation for working
harder or better than the guy next to you. You both get paid the same
regardless of the quality and quantity of your labor.

It's an assembly line. How do you work harder than the guy next to you?

Have you ever been in a union slow down? A wildcat strike? I have. One
way is to go to the safety book and start stopping production lines for
things that have been in place for ever. When we (teamsters) wanted to
shut down Finast, we pulled horn wires off the forklifts, found chips
missing from solid tires, and parked the rigs across the isles, marked
them with red tags we had been handed on the way in that day, then stood
there and made sure management didn't move them the 4 feet out of the
way so production could continue. If a manager or security moved the
thing, they lost their job. It took the two maintenance workers each
shift three days to clear the isles cause they were "magic" I guess,
they could move those rigs with chipped tires or bad horns to the sides
of the isles, without getting killed, amazing.. While we all sat in the
lunchroom and ate our lunch or stood in the parking lot smoking butts
and many getting drunk. Well, the drunk part happened all the time
anyway, but hey... The company eventually sued the union and won. Later
that year they broke the union, laid off 25% of the work force, and
eventually sold to a Canadian company with no union. Now the
Finast/Edwards stores have been sucked up by their other acquisition,
Stop and Shop...

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