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]]> By: Mike Bourne http://www.ensight.org/2004/09/unions/#comment-3207 Mike Bourne Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:09:50 +0000 /?p=1357#comment-3207 Unions are the biggest joke these days. I have no respect for them. Unions are the biggest joke these days. I have no respect for them.

]]> By: Jon Strande http://www.ensight.org/2004/09/unions/#comment-3206 Jon Strande Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:49:01 +0000 /?p=1357#comment-3206 Jeremy, no, you're not off base on this one. This, as G wrote, is despicable. I think unions are an antiquated institution... once used to protect workers from unsafe working conditions. They really don't serve a purpose in modern organizations - for anyone other than the leaders of the union. IMHO. You and I feel the cost of these groups in the prices we pay at retail for everything we buy. If the auto workers get more money, then the people who build houses need more money to be able to afford a car, so house prices go up.... it is a never-ending cycle. However, I'm not suggesting that prices are directly tied to unions, but they certainly don't help the situation... and these people can't be fired very easily either... I did a project at a union shop one time - my goodness, these people acutally slept on the job!!! Urgh! Anyway, I'm with you on this one. Jon Jeremy, no, you’re not off base on this one. This, as G wrote, is despicable. I think unions are an antiquated institution… once used to protect workers from unsafe working conditions. They really don’t serve a purpose in modern organizations – for anyone other than the leaders of the union. IMHO.

You and I feel the cost of these groups in the prices we pay at retail for everything we buy. If the auto workers get more money, then the people who build houses need more money to be able to afford a car, so house prices go up…. it is a never-ending cycle. However, I’m not suggesting that prices are directly tied to unions, but they certainly don’t help the situation… and these people can’t be fired very easily either… I did a project at a union shop one time – my goodness, these people acutally slept on the job!!!

Urgh! Anyway, I’m with you on this one.

Jon

]]> By: G http://www.ensight.org/2004/09/unions/#comment-3205 G Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:35:44 +0000 /?p=1357#comment-3205 Ugh, that's despicable. The hospital should be able to hire workers who will actually get the job done, and for far less too. Unions just seem so greedy. And bureaucratic. And expensive. I think union workers are grossly overpaid, and we all - taxpayers, consumers, employers - pay their bill. $100/hour is ridiculous for those trades, plus probably really generous benefits. I recently heard that longshoremen make around $140K/year. Wow, vastly overpaid. I can't help thinking of the Mafia, in how unions can have such a racket going. Ugh, that’s despicable. The hospital should be able to hire workers who will actually get the job done, and for far less too. Unions just seem so greedy. And bureaucratic. And expensive. I think union workers are grossly overpaid, and we all – taxpayers, consumers, employers – pay their bill.

$100/hour is ridiculous for those trades, plus probably really generous benefits. I recently heard that longshoremen make around $140K/year. Wow, vastly overpaid. I can’t help thinking of the Mafia, in how unions can have such a racket going.

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