What's up with all the strikes lately?

[YukonJack]

You weren't in the union for three months. You were a permit worker. They didn't want you did they? You weren't indentured were you and that is your beef isn't it?

Wrong again, as usual, as always, POS.

I did not want them, after they displayed their stupidity in no uncertain terms.

If I had failed to get a non-union job, I would have quit. And that is more guts than any union enslaved free-loading non-productive drone could ever have.

As Groucho Marx said when he attempted to join a club (paraphrased): I would not want to a part of anything that would have me as a member. Having said that, I admit I have shortcomings and that I have enough sense of humour to laugh at myself, while your kind , Heaven knows, are blessed with neither.

 

[Unforgiven]

I have no union brothers. Those so-called brothers told me me - when working on the same crew with them on piece work - to go and f**k myself, it was not their job to co-operate and help - so I ditched them with no regret. The pension I contributed to for 37 years was a pension plan set up for salaried employees, nothing to do with unions.

Those who call strangers and non-related people 'brothers' do so because they don't know who their daddy is.



Nothing 'social' about contributing to your own pension.

Sounds like a typical back stabber.

 

[petros]

If I had failed to get a non-union job, I would have quit.

So you rode the coat tails until you you found a job for brown nosers because your nose wasn't hard enough and you were razzed over it? You're hillarious.

I bet you went to the Labour Board didn't you? Did the labour Board make the company keep you on elsewhere in the facility?

Did they start you in laundry washing the workers coveralls, gonch and woolies?

 

[YukonJack]

So you rode the coat tails until you you found a job for brown nosers because your nose wasn't hard enough and you were razzed over it? You're hillarious.

I bet you went to the Labour Board didn't you? Did the labour Board make the company keep you on elsewhere in the facility?

At the risk of repeating myself: You are wrong again as usual, POS.

I did not go to the Labour Board; back then I had no idea it existed and today I would not know where to find it.

Where I went was the Personnel Manager. Luckily for me he was a decent guy who saw a young man who wanted to make something of himself without thugs speaking for him and do the talking for him.

Neither he nor I had any regrets in the ensuing years.

I will be generous to ignore your offensive and condescending 'brown nose' reference. After all if I can not be a better person than petros, who can?

EVERYBODY!!

 

[TenPenny]

Indeed, quite so:

During the postwar period, the most important factor that influenced
the growth of workplace pensions was the growth of the trade union
movement and collective bargaining. First the United Mine Workers and
then the CIO unions began pushing for industry-wide standards for pensions
in Canada as well as the United States. Their success is measured
by the fact that between 1945 and 1960, almost entirely due to union​

initiatives, pension coverage increased from 19% to 40% of the workforce.

 

[lone wolf]

Personally, I think Unions became corporate entities unto themselves when they stopped being the guys you worked with on the line. I mean ... what do Steelworkers have to do with the bank tellers they represent or Autoworkers with the Railroads?

 

[TenPenny]

Personally, I think Unions became corporate entities unto themselves when they stopped being the guys you worked with on the line. I mean ... what do Steelworkers have to do with the bank tellers they represent or Autoworkers with the Railroads?

Yes, and the funniest thing I saw was when some of the office employees of one of the unions, wanted to unionize.

 

[YukonJack]

Yes, and the funniest thing I saw was when some of the office employees of one of the unions, wanted to unionize.

Probably the ones with the lowest performance rating and the highest absenteeism record. Being disrespectful and un-co-operative added bonus.

 

[petros]

At the risk of repeating myself: You are wrong again as usual, POS.

I did not go to the Labour Board; back then I had no idea it existed and today I would not know where to find it.

Where I went was the Personnel Manager. Luckily for me he was a decent guy who saw a young man who wanted to make something of himself without thugs speaking for him and do the talking for him.

Neither he nor I had any regrets in the ensuing years.

I will be generous to ignore your offensive and condescending 'brown nose' reference. After all if I can not be a better person than petros, who can?

EVERYBODY!!

LMAO.....he felt sorry for you because you couldn't cut the mustard with the hard nosers hence making you a brown noser.

 

[YukonJack]

LMAO.....he felt sorry for you because you couldn't cut the mustard with the hard nosers hence making you a brown noser.

You are earning your abbreviated name more and more, with each of your posts, POS.

 

[petros]

You had no where to go and they gave you a job out of ****ing pity because you lacked the balls and social skills to work with the men.

 

[CUBert]

Hahaha YukonJoke

 

[JLM]

I have no union brothers. Those so-called brothers told me me - when working on the same crew with them on piece work - to go and f**k myself, it was not their job to co-operate and help - so I ditched them with no regret. The pension I contributed to for 37 years was a pension plan set up for salaried employees, nothing to do with unions.

Those who call strangers and non-related people 'brothers' do so because they don't know who their daddy is.

Y.J. - It was about two weeks ago you told me I shouldn't be swearing and substituting "*s" doesn't mitigate the transgression. Comes under the heading of "practice what you preach! :lol:

 

[Unforgiven]

It's on dawg!

 

[JLM]

And that pension plan was set up out of a general sense of goodwill on the part of the employer, sure. You do understand why pensions exist, don't you? I hope you thank your union brothers for making pensions common so that you could benefit from them.

Now you ARE joking- pensions were around a hell of a long time before Samuel Gompers was a twinkle in his old man's eye.

 

[YukonJack]

Y.J. - It was about two weeks ago you told me I shouldn't be swearing and substituting "*s" doesn't mitigate the transgression. Comes under the heading of "practice what you preach! :lol:

JLM, I am surprised that you don't see that I was QUOTING my so-called union brothers.

My typically foul-mouthed so called union brothers.

 

[JLM]

JLM, I am surprised that you don't see that I was QUOTING my so-called union brothers.

My typically foul-mouthed so called union brothers.

Right on- and what self respecting "brothers" would be using language like that in the first place? :lol:

 

[TenPenny]

Now you ARE joking- pensions were around a hell of a long time before Samuel Gompers was a twinkle in his old man's eye.

Reading comprehension. Note the word 'common'. As in, commonplace.

Before the unions got involved, pensions were available only for top executives.

 

[petros]

Maybe they should bring back scrip payment? Who here would work for scrip today?

 

[cranky]

what kind of salaried position is one qualified for after only 3 months?

In my line of work, engineers fresh out of school had to work along side us for 6 months before they were allowed to start their engineering position. it was interesting training people that eventually became my boss. although they moved onto bigger positions, they were always happy to drop by and say hello. and they always seemed to apreciate my opinion about issues related to my immediate work area.