Theodore's World

By the time obama's the country will be so far to the left there will be no turning back. When are people going to wake up.

This reminds me of when my place of employment 40 years ago became unionized. Those of us who refused to join became bullied by others. Men who had been friendly a month before suddenly became hateful. They were resentful of me because I had negotiated my own deals with management. I said screw it and rejoined the Army.

The first job I had was at the Steel Mill. They had the UAW, because we did alot of work for Generous Motors(GM). One year they voted for a strike. We were out for 6 months, the deal was finally settled for a Nickle. We lost 6 months of wages for a friggin Nickle. These morons thought they had really put one over on management, They got a whole nickle, they didn't think how long it would take to get back the money lost. Idiots.

When I first started with New York telephone, I was union. We had in upstate a hot meal allowance during the cold months. The company would pay for a hot meal in a restaurant/diner if you more than a certain distance from a heated company lunchroom. Shortly thereafter there was a strike of probably 9-10 months, don't remember. Because downstate controlled the vote we lost the meal allowance for $1.00 a week for those members at top pay. Those still in progression got nothing. What a bargain.
I went into management as a construction supervisor and left in 1991

Mark, your so right, when those that are
not interested now, they will be the ones
saying what happened, when did we lose our
freedoms.

Tom, thank you so much for sharing about
your experiences with Unions. That is so
bad!
I remember my dad telling me how the
people that worked for him fought back
hard not to habe the union come in. They
loved the working conditions, pay and
treatment they had from my dad and did
not want to change anything. But those
union thugs they went after people and
also their faimiles. It was so horrible.

Mark, amazing, all those months and for
so little. I hate how if a person does
not want to go along with a strike they
are forced to, that is wrong too.

Bob A., we always hear so much about those
pro union. They should make it more known
the other side like what you, Mark and Tom
have shared about.

"in order to restore a sense of shared prosperity and security"

Duh? At the begining of the 1950s more that 35% of all private sector jobs in the United States had been Unionized during the twenty years of Roosevelt/Truman. Now less than 9% are. So what happened to all of those Union jobs? I give you a hint, there weren't any decertification elections.
The Unions ran the companies out of business. There is no shared security or prosperity with a Union.