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On 10/4/2011 7:58 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:05:32 -0400, X `
wrote:

That still does not address the jurisdictional issue. The union will
tell the GC who they have to hire ... unless they want to get
struck.

You don't mean "jurisdictional" issue.

Certainly. If you have a guy who is not in the Operating Engineers,
running the backhoe (maybe an out of work carpenter) The OE union will
say that is "their" job and start a jurisdictional dispute.
I grew up around this. My mom worked at the Teamsters International
and that was pretty much what she did all day, trying to arbitrate
this bull****..

Yup, teamsters.. I remember *we* used that *method* to shut down the
warehouse for almost a week by parking a bunch of "broken" (pulled the
horn wire out) jacks and forklifts in the middle of the isles.
Management could not even move them to the side of the isles or they
would get written up for "stealing a job" when in actuality, few if any
of the "problems" were really anything that would preclude a non union
company from having the guys move their jacks to the sides of the isles
instead of across at each end as we were told to do by the stewards...

Three, two man shifts of "certified mechanics" had to go out over the 17
acre warehouse and move them one at a time until we could move through
the isles again. And at the same time because of the "designated" safety
area, they could only work on two at at time anyway. Each *fix* took
probably an hour or two once the paperwork was done, the horn wire or
whatever fixed, moved around, and put back in service. This action cost
the company millions of dollars over almost a week... Funny how much
Unions are like the DNC... Playing one side against the other, and
sucking what they can out of the middle.