Why do companies let unions hold them hostage?

exactly. :up:

 

I get tired of generalized statements too. You know, ones like this one for instance.

 

hehe, hey, if we're gonna generalize, i may as well jump in there too. :up:

 

Wait till election time.

 

Am I correct in assuming that you are paying that $3.43 per hour into a retirement account for yourself?

 

Todd, with all those drawings and blueprints that are handed out that have to be redone it sounds like most of the engineers are in reality, "theoretical engineers."

 

preeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty much. :up: They love to use the words "well, in theory". Im like, uhhhhh....this is reality here, lets try that first?

 

Funny how that works, can government employees strike?

 

We dont even want to get started on Mechanical or related engineers without the first damn bit of mechanical aptitude whatsoever...

 

No

 

Depends.

 

LE [and iirc fire departments] cannot.......who else?

 

Why would they want to? They already get paid more than they should and they don't do any work anyway.

 

Wow Marc, how big is that brush you're holding?

 

Idiots

+ 1:up:

 

Luckily he's not one of them college engineers, you know the ones without common sense. He started as a lineman 34 years ago with them. He doesnt have a college degree which means he couldnt even get hired to do his own job right now. He worked his way up just like everyone should have to do.

 

Kansas City Fire Department threatened to a few years ago when the city wanted to reduce a bunch of training of new employees. City employees can ie, street department, animal control, etc.

 

Where I worked in government, they wouldn't strike. Pay wasn't bad at all if you didn't mind the shitty work (literally) and long hours(one year was 1300 hrs OT). The department I worked in actually did some pretty tough work. But there was also a standing joke. If someone ask "What do you do for the county?" You gave them a long blank,questioning stare and said "Uhh, nothing".... Cause you knew that's what they were thinkin' anyway.
Been gone from there for a while,don't miss it.

 

Government union contractors can strike. Direct government employees can't.... then again why would they. They have kickass pay and benefits.

As for the contractor unions strikes use to be a yearly thing here in Oak Ridge... the week that deer season opened. The hunters would hunt and the non-hunters would sit at the gates with their pickets signs stuck in the ground and drink coffee all day. Then the contract would get signed as soon as the DoE and Union bosses got back from their Elk hunting out West.

 

You literally cant pass ANY job site in Boston without a union or whatever picketing out front. So and so company does not conform to community standards. AKA, they wouldnt pay us what we wanted, and hired someone cheaper. They've gotten so lazy they have pre-printed signs and just fill in the company name at the top. And of course, at everyone one of these they need a detail cop being paid probably 70 bucks an hour to stand there all day, which I'm sure is provided by the city. Utterly ridiculous.