Cabal
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join:2007-01-21
Boston, MA
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Re: unions hate them? all the more reason to USE them!
AT&T union employees in Milwaukee are urging locals to avoid Time Warner Cable because of the company's non-unionized labor in the region.
No kidding, I wish I could sign up.
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jc100
join:2002-04-10
| You my friend are an idiot. I never knew Time Warner didn't support unions. I find that disturbing. Basically, you are for low wages, kicking anyone out for any reason (valid or not), and having long work hours? You my friend need to look at U.S. history 100 yrs ago when there were no worker rights or unions. You worked 7 days a week, could be fired for missing one day, and often got killed or injured on the job due to unsafe conditions. I guess some people just don't learn from the past. |
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markopoleo
join:2003-04-02
Bonne Terre, MO
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| said by jc100  :You my friend are an idiot. I never knew Time Warner didn't support unions. I find that disturbing. Basically, you are for low wages, kicking anyone out for any reason (valid or not), and having long work hours? You my friend need to look at U.S. history 100 yrs ago when there were no worker rights or unions. You worked 7 days a week, could be fired for missing one day, and often got killed or injured on the job due to unsafe conditions. I guess some people just don't learn from the past. You are not well informed to. The past also showed unions are not needed today. Esp with the laws in place that makes unions obsolete. You don't have 13 year old boys beating iron rivets today like you did before unions, because of laws.
Unions today are a SHAM.
The 3 points you brought up are easily discredited by modern laws.
1. Low wages are set by min wage, which in the days of unions none existed. Min wage today is the set bar, it is actually higher in most places, fast food is a good example, most fast food places pay more than required.
2. Kicking people out for no reason is also avoided by modern laws, to many examples to point out here.
3. Long work hours? 40 hours a week is pretty standard no matter what you do now, unless you CHOOSE a profession that will work more. Esp with overtime laws in effect make it almost impossible. (doctors for example, but they are well above pay for even a union)
Unions today are most like organized crime. |
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Tsume
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN
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Unions are unnecessary overhead.
All I ever see them do with the extra money they extort is bitch for more and publicly flog those who choose not to pay protection (in other words, those who choose not to do unions).
Thankfully, most everyone in America can see the truth here. Everyone, except union employees who know they are overpaid and want to protect that undeserved extra cash. You wouldn't happen to be one of these would you? |
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK
| reply to jc100
i guess some people don't know about OSHA and other gorvernment organizations and policies designed to protect ALL workers. unions are a relic of the past when the government wouldn't help. These days they are just used to swindle companies out of more money while their members do the same job. |
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AdamB
join:2001-01-07
Westerville, OH
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Unions are useless and that's coming from a union member. The only things unions do anymore are protect people who don't want to work and take money out of paychecks. Every time a manager gets on someone at work for not doing their job, the person cries and goes to the union rep. The end result is that you can't fire useless workers no matter what.
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Chainzz
Aka Snippy
join:2004-07-26
Amherstburg, ON
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said by Cabal :AT&T union employees in Milwaukee are urging locals to avoid Time Warner Cable because of the company's non-unionized labor in the region.No kidding, I wish I could sign up. UNIONS ARE FOR LAZY PEOPLE THAT LIKE TO MAKE A DECENT WAGE. LOOK AT THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY, 35 DOLLARS AN HR TO DRIVE THE VANS OFF OF THE LINE 200 FT TO PARK THEM IN THE LOT.
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seqrets
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join:2001-05-03
Nederland, TX
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| reply to inteller
said by inteller :i guess some people don't know about OSHA and other gorvernment organizations and policies designed to protect ALL workers. Yeah! Like FEMA, OSHA, Republicans, Democrats, etc. Let's just keep the power out of the peoples hands and in the hands of the goverment and then see where that gets us! Oh! Wait a minute, we're there now!
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
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| reply to inteller
I agree .. unions may have had their place back when labor laws didn't exist.
Now, with few exceptions, they hold back progress, and assist in offshoring jobs.
I'll give a hint... Toyota vs. the big 3. Guess who won.
I've been inside some of those plants, and many are job protecting slugs and union/management relationships are poor at best.
I've seen workers sleeping on the job (sleeping there, as they have a 'real job' when they get done their shift), some sabotaging production, others outright stealing things from engines/compents/electronics to janitor supplies. The union protects them, and they never get fired. The typical age of these employees are +50.
I've worked on both Union and Non-Union jobs (for the same company even), and I think Union jobs typically hurt the overall economy/industry these days.
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59126125
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join:2006-01-21
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Where do you think those "modern" laws came from? Those laws are there because of the Unions. If the Unions were gone, those laws would soon be gone also. The government and corporations don't give a shit about the working class, you're just a number. Unions are the only way for the little guy to demand a living wage, benefits and safe working conditions. |
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boober321
join:2003-07-15
Milwaukee, WI | reply to en102
Yeah, because Toyota was smart enough to pay a reasonable rate to skirt a union in the first place.
While unions, like the rest of America, has gotten fat and lazy, they are still very much needed. |
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boober321
join:2003-07-15
Milwaukee, WI
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1 edit | reply to markopoleo
You sir are a complete idiot.
1. The Minimum Wage has not kept up with inflation. So that "minimum wage" is not really a "livable" wage, for which it was intended. Even the higher paying fast food jobs don't offer livable wages.
2. Ever hear of "At-will" dumbass? Basically, you can be fired for any reason (other than illegal discrimination.)
3. 40 hours a week is not a standard anymore. Most people work much longer. If you work as a salaried employee, odds that you are working more is even greater. This doesn't even consider companies like WalMart and others that force employees to badge out and continue working on their own time.
In a country that is seeing the middle class squeezed out of existence, where the rich continue to get richer and the poor are getting poorer, we need good, strong unions that are realistic and are more in tune to today's requirements. Unions need to be fixed, but not destroyed. |
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boober321
join:2003-07-15
Milwaukee, WI | reply to Tsume
Thankfully, most of America doesn't see it your way, you jackass. |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO
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im guessing you have never had to LIVE on min wage
you cant not with out 3 or 4 people living together
and even then its hard to pay the bills
min wage in some states is a joke look at CA the cost of living is so high if you dont make atlest 40k a year your going to be living in a slum |
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TMMTX
@rr.com
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I have no idea where you people think that "Toyota" pays good, trust me TMMTX pay SUCKS, I speak from experience. benefits are marginal, work ethics are EXTREMELY SICK (ex. 3 days out no matter the reason, YOUR GONE). How about bad weather/tornado? EVERYONE is stuffed into a so called tornado shelter (RESTROOM) which is roughly a 25x25 space x 50 - 100 people. want to call a loved one in an extreme emergency? your out of luck no phones/cells are allowed on Toyota site if caught its termination and banned forever at Toyota. Laws you say?
you sign a contract stating they are in right to terminate with or without cause/reason end of story. if you don't sign this don't think you will be working for this company or any on-site supplier for that matter.
Housing market pre Toyota in south side satx about 75k today's market for house on south side no less then 140k
Toyota pay DOES NOT support this trust me. all suppliers pay about same base line as Toyota assembly etc.
yet a truck sells for on avg. $30k x 150k trucks per year = $4.5 billion a year, way to go Toyota this is just the Tundra line
of course Toyota itself makes about $2k in profit per truck after all is said and done that still = huge profits.
TMMTX and all suppliers are non union so does it need a union? i say it needs something/control. |
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keisur
join:2001-12-27
Houston, TX
| reply to elios
"min wage in some states is a joke look at CA the cost of living is so high if you dont make atlest 40k a year your going to be living in a slum"
All the more reason for the lower class scum to aspire to do something with their lives instead of feasting off of the taxes paid by the people who actually cared enough to PAY FOR THEIR OWN SCHOOLING and get a degree to better themselves. It is far too easy for these people to get student loans for schooling, full student loans. There is no excuse. I've had people tell me, "I didint getted duh oppuhtoonitee you gots!" That is complete Horse Dung as I've stated it's alot easier for one of them to get a loan than me! I worked through school to pay for it and it was tough. I didn't give up and blame "the man" for not giving me free breakfast after the free bus ride to school which is provided free through highschool. It all goes back to the individuals wanting to better their peeps, which in my experience (take the scum from N.O. after Katrina for instance) they don't give a crap about. They just want to suckle off the teet of the american tax payer and get a free ride. I was a Teamster throughout college (because that was the only way to work in the moving business) but I hated every minuted of it. It HAD it's place in the making of the equal opportunity laws that are in place now, they aren't worth a crap to society anymore. The people who support unions are the same scum that suckle the teet. |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO
·Mediacom
| you want to give me a full loan for school becouse i have NO credit and it seems i make to much to get a loan
id pay for my own schooling but i CANT becouse i bearly make enough to pay my bills
im living in MO atm and they just raised min wage a buck this year and what happened prices for EVERY THING in town jumped at lest 3%
so dont tell me people on min wage are scum some of us arnt
and dont like to take handouts but when you bearly get paid enough to pay your bills its hard to pay for any thing else |
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keisur
join:2001-12-27
Houston, TX
| "id pay for my own schooling but i CANT becouse i bearly make enough to pay my bills"
LOL, and you are pissing your money away on your high speed internet connection and you own a computer? Come on, you can't be that hard up, or you have your priorities all F'd up, which would group you in with the teet sucklers. |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO
·Mediacom
1 edit | my field of study is computer science YOU try keeping up with out a PC and net
also i dont own a TV or any game systems this PC came from my tax refunds
and i DONT take handouts i could get food stamps if i wanted but i dont
what do you think i should do live in the dark with no contact with the out side world
i dont like people i dont go out i dont like movies
i use my PC to teach my self things about PCs
i have the qualifications for much better work but were i live there isnt much
and the stupid personalty tests that bestbuy and other big chains use are bullshit
i know more then most people with a BS in CompSci
i just dont have the nice piece of paper
and i pay more a month for gas then i do for my net which isnt that much like 40 bucks a month my roommate pays for the TV side of the bill since i never watch much and they dont use the net much
but if you want give me a nice real job ill take it
i dont thing you have any right to say any thing sure maybe you worked your way though school but when was that 1970? 1980? things were a lot cheaper then and cost of living was lower
look what happened here when min wage whent up every one raised prices so much for that
lets say i didnt even have net
ok that gives me 40 bucks more a month school here for my track would run me at lest 400 bucks in books another 200 for lab time and then classes alone would be 500 a semester
i make maybe 1000 a month (FUCK YOU crappy job)
my rent is 400 a month + power water and food
and i would need net any way to do school work and im not sure about you but good luck with tele-courses on dial up
so yea school cost a lot and thats not counting gas and car insurance gas here for the cheap stuff is 2.60/gal as of yesterday
and befor you say work more hours lets SAY i could even have time for school + work 40 hours a week
they wont give me more then 30 that would make me full time and they cant have that OH NO cant let them have benefits of working full time that would cost to much were i work the only ones working full time are managers and there was one guy that got promoted thinking he would make more so he could go to school guess what
he had to stop going to school becouse of his work shifts how AWESOME IS THAT! |
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boober321
join:2003-07-15
Milwaukee, WI
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3 edits | elios, keisur is a simpleton that probably hasn't work for a thing in his life. People like him have been handed everything and have never experienced true hardship. You owe that piece of shit nothing, let alone an explanation. One can only hope that he suffers some extreme calamity that puts him into a position that requires he live the life that he criticizes.
BTW, gotta love his racist attempt at "ghetto" talk as well.... "peeps"... what are you implying by this comment Keisur? I believe the image of you sitting in front of your computer with your white hood on isn't a stretch. |
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