My Dad's [censored] Union

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I support a "Give them an hour to pout and get their asses back on the job, or you're fired and I'll hire some drivers who will work for $40k a yr instead of $80k" strategy.

Sorry to hear about your dad though. Situations like his are why I don't like unions.

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This makes no sense. You realize that his situation, while not ideal, is a a hell of a lot better than it would have been if there was never any union at all, right?

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I never said Unions didn't have their place in history, but in modern times, they are putting American companies out of business because the American companies are so worried about public image that they're willing to pay these union workers 2, sometimes 3x what the fair market value of the service they perform, which is driving costs up, and wrecking the economy.

Take UAW, for example. Several years ago, I toured one of the auto manufacturing plants outside Atlanta with my high school. While there, I met two women who made $22/hr+, just for holding a lug gun and putting lug nuts on wheels.

The wheels were already on the car, someone else had done that.

The point of that story? I can go on the street and find someone willing to do the same job for $8/hr, and could probably fire the guy who puts the tires on the cars and make the two jobs into one job as well.

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What's stopping you? It sounds like you could make a killing in the auto industry.

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Don't know enough about car design. I have changed enough tires to know that I can train an inbred 1/2 retarded chimp to put lugnuts on, it's certainly not skilled labor.

Then again, unless you're in a maintenance/mechanical position at the factory, very little is actually skilled labor, in most factories. Most of these workers could be replaced at the drop of a hat and you could retrain new hires in a matter of hours.

Truck driving, on the other hand, while certainly skilled labor, is not the type of job that cannot be easily replaced either.

Then again, when you're willing to walk off your job, then kill someone mafioso style for being intelligent enough to go "Hey, I'm hungry, my wife and kids are hungry, and these [censored] don't wanna go to work, I'll go!" I guess you can usually get your way.