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In reply to the discussion: Union workers who hate unions. I don't get it. [View all]The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)6. It sounds like you got answers when you asked them
Some rant about money being taken, and other vague reasons. Whatever the details of those reasons were, that's what they're thinking.
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Sounds like someone needs to set standards and make people accountable, that's not union...poor lead
uponit7771
Dec 2012
#84
I am enjoying my union pension..and I liked making $16+ an hour (retired in '96)
SoCalDem
Dec 2012
#149
That's also true of non-union workers who have "connections". And there are plenty of them.
SharonAnn
Dec 2012
#121
And that's the problem with talking about "unions" in general. Different types of work...
Recursion
Dec 2012
#66
Sounds like the company you work for has a problem, not the Union necessarily.
bluestate10
Dec 2012
#39
Then your beef is with management. Union membership has little to do with how they perceive you.
Ikonoklast
Dec 2012
#50
if you have "lazy" coworkers, you have a management problem, not a union problem. n/t
Scout
Dec 2012
#62
I just had a argument about this on another forum where most folks there are RW, not all but most
Ya Basta
Dec 2012
#8
Talk about biting the hand that feed you. Do you talk to her often? Does she think she or her
bluestate10
Dec 2012
#42
Well, I figured it out. One time we got an extra year's vacation and another we got long-term
SharonAnn
Dec 2012
#120
I appreciate your clarification. Now, pretend they were telling *their* truth.
IdaBriggs
Dec 2012
#118
Eh, where I live you aren't going to get in a union in the first place unless you know someone
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#70
Why aren't you blaming management instead of the unions??? Really! No...really really?
ret5hd
Dec 2012
#112
They don't get that without that union they hate so much they'd have died at their post.
Arkana
Dec 2012
#43
As workers and unions decrease in power and influence, employers and management increase theirs...
YoungDemCA
Dec 2012
#64
Yes. The fact that the left doesn't get what turns workers off is a big part of the problem.
Recursion
Dec 2012
#65
"Being told to sit down and wait your turn when you're objectively better at the job
Piazza Riforma
Dec 2012
#101
Piss on all that!!! I should be able to push that old lady that's been casheiring for 10 yrs...
ret5hd
Dec 2012
#136
There were 4 openings for cashiers listed at the time I applied so nice try with the snark.
Piazza Riforma
Dec 2012
#150
Hopefully he hasn't lived his entire life Yet. But let's say he worked at Ford for
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#80
He thinks he has more rights than the union has fought to get him. ...Fool...
The Wielding Truth
Dec 2012
#90
I'm just so sad to make $30/hr and have Union representation. It just rages me to no end.
rDigital
Dec 2012
#94
The Unions are the key to President Obama's progressive transformation of our country
BanTheGOP
Dec 2012
#115
I don't know about other states, but in Texas we are a right to work state and we have lots of
JohLast
Dec 2012
#125
They aren't thinking (in answer to your question). One cruel legacy of McCarthyism and
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#141