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They're all a bunch of fucktards.

It's a rigged game.

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

One of my brothers is a Teamster. And THEY DON"T FUCKIN" STEAL, GOT IT ASSHOLE?

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ORIGINAL: servantforuse

erieangel, are you a union member ? If not why not organize to certify one ?

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ORIGINAL: ClassIsInSession

The problem with unions is they extort part of your paycheck to "represent" you,

You mean that the union charges it's members for the services it renders them?
Does not any of that money go into the strik fund?


and in most cases I've worked around union workers, they are like government employees, lazy, sluggish and always whining.


Government employees like soldiers and sailors are lazy,slugish and always whining?

Then real workers come in and work circles

Of course you have validation for this opinion or yours?


around them despite the insults, the threats and sometimes the attempts at causing harm.

Bottom line is, if people wouldn't accept the current wages for work, the wages would have to increase,


How long can you go without eating?

but as long as someone is willing to work for less,

Don't you mean starve to death more slowly than their unemployed bretheren?

the wages will stagnate or worse deflate, as they are currently in many positions where there are 1000 applicants for the same job.

The bigger problem is that we can't compete with workers from other countries who can buy more with less or are generally willing to live with much less. The problem that creates this dilemna is subsidized globalization.

And by people with an attitude like yours.

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ORIGINAL: ClassIsInSession

The problem with unions is they extort part of your paycheck to "represent" you, and in most cases I've worked around union workers, they are like government employees, lazy, sluggish and always whining. Then real workers come in and work circles around them despite the insults, the threats and sometimes the attempts at causing harm.

Bottom line is, if people wouldn't accept the current wages for work, the wages would have to increase, but as long as someone is willing to work for less, the wages will stagnate or worse deflate, as they are currently in many positions where there are 1000 applicants for the same job.

The bigger problem is that we can't compete with workers from other countries who can buy more with less or are generally willing to live with much less. The problem that creates this dilemna is subsidized globalization.

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ORIGINAL: servantforuse

I don't like unions that steal from their members as the Teamsters have a history of doing.

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ORIGINAL: ClassIsInSession

The problem with unions is they extort part of your paycheck to "represent" you,

You mean that the union charges it's members for the services it renders them?
Does not any of that money go into the strike fund?

And strikes do what?  Delay (today) the inevitable...which is to provide a bump for loss of wages during the strike. (Which if you study the stats, almost never makes up for the loss of wages during same, and statistically, proves a loss).

Do the research.  If strikers simply accepted the deal originally offered, they'd be (historically....over the last 45 years) up....0.075% annually (which works out to, against loss of wages, against every day they sat out with their 55 gallon drum burn barrels extolling how they'd "won") up nearly 118% where they'd be today).

This isn't an "us vs. them" issue, or a Republican vs, Democrats issue.  Statistically, had unions accepted the first offer (or any agreement), they'd be ahead,  Their families would be ahead.  Business......would be ahead (which is who's paying your bills).

Financially.  Pocket book stuff...pay your mortgage, rent kind of stuff.

Unions were great when the world was a different place....businesses "putting them down"...but it ain't that way anymore.

Jobs can move to China, South Carolina, Brazil, Portugal, Uruguay, Chile', Poland, or Ukraine,

Businesses want to sell "stuff".  They've always wanted to sell stuff.  The more stuff they sell...the better off everyone is.

If unions stop them from manufacturing (ergo, "selling stuff")....we all lose.

It's a very different world today.

If it's too expensive....well...YOU'RE going to buy a 30 dollar Hibachi as opposed to a 200 dollar one because frankly....all you want to do is burn a few steaks.

and in most cases I've worked around union workers, they are like government employees, lazy, sluggish and always whining.

No argument.

Government employees like soldiers and sailors are lazy ,slugish and always whining?

Then real workers come in and work circles

Don't know that I'd say that about soldiers.  Hired a few....those guy want to work...It ain't about patriotism....they just work hard.  As a business owner, I couldn't give a shit if you're Black, Portugese', Latino, Russian, military or non....all I give a shit about it is, if I pay you 20 bucks an hour...I expect 70 to 100 bucks an hour productivity in return..

If you're a soldier and you produce less....you're out.  If you're Russian and you produce twice what I need....I'm gonna hire your relatives.

Would I hire a union employee if I had an option?

Not on your fucking life.

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

One of my brothers is a Teamster. And THEY DON"T FUCKIN" STEAL, GOT IT ASSHOLE?

Wait a second here....(just one small second....really)....."Teamsters don't steal".

The suggestion is that (because your brother is an honorable man...and I presume....a member), by default....the Teamsters are pure as silk, white as a bleached set of bedsheets.....ready to take on the world in all it's glory.....like a Summer day....a virgin.

I'm sorry....I'll be unavailable for a while while the Medics carry me out from laughing so fucking hard that (I'm sure) I lost a lung, cracked a fucking rib and had to be ripped open from the sternum up.

(GAWD....this is better than DVD's of the "Best of" Carson).

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You actually consider this a threat Sanity??? This was a call-to-arms to every working stiff in America, a reminder that the only constituency the GOP work for is their donors. Unions are under massive assault. And those of us who remember what our parents and grandparents fought for and what unions brought us (the 40 hr. work week, sick leave, minimum wage standards, child labor laws to name a few) need to get the word out to those who have forgotten and we all need to fight for our rights.

Is it that anything that threatens the power of the plutocrats a direct threat to you? Is that it, Sanity?

I few a threat as being along the lines of one of my clients threatening to hit me.

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Biden At AFL-CIO Rally: "You Are The Only Folks Keeping The Barbarians From the Gates" (Video)


The opposition is called "son of a bitches" at one Labor rally and "barbarians" at another rally. Here's an angry Joe Biden at the AFL-CIO rally in Cincinnati Monday afternoon



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