If your company went belly up over $10 a week per employee, they were going to go under no matter what the Union did. LOL
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> The article states that the southern japanese factory worker was offered >> to
>> join the union bringing wages on par to its northern American worker but
>> they opted to stay bare foot and po' for japanese pennies. How STUPID can
>> people be! If they had simply joined the union they would be getting the
>> same exact pay and benefits as the northern worker living a higher >> standard
>> of life and there would have been an even playing field for all >> manufactures
>> from the start. For years it has been said that the Japanese choose the
>> southern worker simply to take advantage of there ignorance. I guess the
>> article proves they were right about that one. Now the northern worker >> will
>> be forced to be dragged down to the level of pay of the southern worker. >> Its
>> a simple question of is everyone on board to make a lot of money or will >> a
>> segment of the community just drag others down to make a lesser amount of >> money???
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> I had a good job with a *BIG* corporation (at the time #3 in the Fortune
> 500). It became very apparent there was going to be a layoff.
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> I was *NOT* a good union member. We were coming up to contract
> negotiations, and there was word of a strike. Screw that. I was reading
> the WSJ every day and aircraft orders were waning.
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> A real union dog came up and asked me what I was going to do. Cross the
> line, of course! Nobody in the friggin' union signs my paycheck. >
> So I asked him, if it comes down to you getting $0.25 an hour more (we
> were making $17 and hour in 1991, full medical, dental, pension, etc) and
> watching 5 people walk out the door, what would you say?
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> "Gimme the quarter".
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> I would have taken a cut in pay, even back to $12~14 an hour. In a bad
> economy, a good job at lower pay is better than *NO* job at all. >
> They got the quarter. We got the axe. The one good thing out of it all
> was, even though the other guy had been with the company longer, he went
> out the door before me.
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> Stupid union dogs.
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