I remember stories that my dad told at our supper table about his visits from the union leaders at bargaining time...& the large, bouncer-type "thugs" that they brought with them. This has been going on for years! Those same union heads never, to my knowledge, ever solicited on the Company's behalf to secure jobs to help the Co. be more profitable so that our family business could hire more workers...or to prevent us from laying off current workers!
Labor leaders have duped many American workers for years into believing that paying union dues prevents them from losing their jobs. In fact, the opposite can be true! The demands that unions have made on employers have created a situation for them that makes their business less competitive and therefore less profitable.
After my dad passed and my mom inherited the company, I returned to work for the family business. I found myself frequently frustrated by the employees' attitudes; they continually reminded us that they were union employees. A running joke among management was that getting our workers to actually work was like "herding cats".
The environment was sometimes even volatile between employer/employees when we found it necessary to send them home early because of lack of work available. They preferred to congregate in the Co. garage rather than allow management to assign them manual labor necessary to maintain the property. This kind of situation makes it very difficult, sometimes impossible, to operate a successful, profitable small business.
Today the family business that I grew up around is under new ownership and is no longer a union shop. I would venture to guess that it is easier and more enjoyable to operate. Albeit sad, it is probably true...& as an outsider watching improvements being made, I would venture to guess that it is also much more profitable.
Several websites/blogs that provide more information about today's problems with unions:
LaborPains.org UnionFacts.com
Union/Label Blog: Exposing Union Flaws
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I'm sure that there are many stories like this across the nation, most of which end with the business closed or transferred overseas.
These union folks should consider the story about killing the goose who laid the golden egg.
good point...it has morphed into a nightmare!
@WomanHonorThyself: ...and is continuing to morph beyond that.
The sham of saying that this is an attack on the Middle Class when government or the private sector takes steps to control expenditures is to deny that high taxes (and high prices) brought on by the greater expenditure in the case of fat union contracts are not paid for by the true middle class (which does not include most union jobs these days).
Raising taxes and / or prices to make the unions happy will destroy the middle class, because the middle class is who pays all of these bills.
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