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Gotta hand it to Sid for still carrying the water for the Old South!

Modern day unions have destroyed America

Companies that get unions deserve unions for hos they treat their workers. Want to avoid a union? Treat your employees fairly and you will.

Unions, criminal organizations that protect drunks and drug heads who are turning out second rate services and products......

09:45 is correct. Workers vote yes in union elections when the union provides a better deal than existing management. Saw it first hand. Site management suddenly became more visible and eager to listen to the troops during the weeks leading up to a previous down vote. The cuddle fest vaporized immediately after the vote. Next time around was +90 % in favor. Not looking for a best friend in the management ranks, just consistent honesty.

9:45 who isn't treating their employees fairly? Locally, Nissan is one of the best places to work. They offer great wages and benefits, and that also spawned the first and second tier companies that provide components as part of the automotive manufacturing process. How does that compare to the big grassy field that was there before? Before they all came to Mississippi such jobs for unskilled people were rare.
Unions are parasitic - they grow their power by duping non-thinking people into believing lies and promises. They grow their wealth on dues from the same people they sell their promises to. And when their ever-increasing demands are not met, they make people who need their jobs walk away from them, just so the Union can flex its muscle.

The organizations like unions owe their continued existence to their ability to convince a naive populace of the ever-presense of the past oppression which gave rise to their organizations in the first place. Workers who are paid a fair wage and work under reasonable conditions are told they are being tortured as mere slaves of oppresive captialists who get rich while they can only aspire to a horrible "middle class" existence. The rich owners should be made share the wealth! The unions do not care that the end result is always the ultimate failure of the businesses they attack which will become uncompetitive due to unreasonable labor costs. They only care about their own
day in the sun.

Democrats love unions until they have to deal with the fallout. I recall Continental Tire originally had Jackson on the list of possible locations, until Chowkie started gum flapping about their employees needing union representation. Jackson was quickly crossed off the list, depriving the city of jobs and desperately needed tax revenue.

Yet when JTran drivers sent a list of grievances to the mayor and asked for a meeting, he couldn’t be bothered to even acknowledge them. That is, not until they failed to come to work.

Seems like every thing the mayor touches turns to shit.

May 29, 2024 at 12:25 PM, you are so right. Unions operate the same way the race hustlers operate, using the long gone past to justify their power.

Unions are great if you’re one of the union leaders pulling down a seven figure salary “representing” the rank and file.

Did Sid mention this, this show is not over!
https://apnews.com/article/uaw-mercedes-alabama-00c0ec401d18f6a82d9b56bf71543f30

The USW has been corrupt for decades. Their leadership often supports candidates that have political positions that are contrary to the workers’ best interests. If Biden has his way, most auto plants will close in the next 20 years and we will be buying our vehicles (EVs) from China. Yet union bosses seize the dues and send the money to Democrsts.

Biden is a major threat to our Nissan and Toyota plants and all the industries her that supply or service them.

Yes, unions are sometimes corrupt. Yes, yes, they're a lot of bad this and that. But if the guise in the C-suites back at Corporate could be trusted to deal fairly with the working man from now till the end of time, I'd be one of those trashing unions, advocating their abolishment.

But that ain't never going to happen, is it, Mr. CEO?

Sure, Peckerwood, go negotiate your pay and benefits with Mr. CEO of Multi-billion Dollar Conglomerate, Inc. He's got his door open, just waiting for you to drop by.

VW voted in the union on the 3rd vote.

At Mercedes, a 44% vote on the first try is pretty darn good.

The UAW has set up shop in Bama, and it is a matter of time before the second vote - I'd guess 3 years the UAW will win. Then there are 2 more non-union shops in Bama for the UAW to attack.

Unions protect the slovenly, the sleepers, those who'd rather not report for work, employees who have no respect for authority (in fact don't recognize authority), those who refuse to follow company policy and those who gain an assignment based simply on tenure.

In that regard, unions are entirely and completely antithetical to sound management practices. The first goal of union organization and existence is to challenge the rights of management and ownership.

Failed presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has come to Mississippi at least twice to 'assist' with (failed) union organizing efforts. It's not become apparent why a double handful of black preachers joined him in those efforts. 'Follow the money' is probably the rational since unions contribute heavily and specifically to democrat causes.

Three personal experiences:

1. A union grievance was filed against me for changing a fluorescent light bulb in my own office. The rational of the union was that only a member of the bargaining unit could perform a maintenance task.

2. After being caught twice sleeping under a staircase (while on duty), an employee was fired. A union grievance resulted in his being returned to work.

3. A shop steward was terminated for job abandonment after leaving a critically important assignment in an industrial production setting. The shop steward claimed to have 'gone down to HR to protest the treatment of a union member'.

This went all the way to a federal trial. The terminated employee was represented by a National Labor Relations Board attorney out of New Orleans. The judge 'orchestrating' the trial was an NLRB federal judge. All NLRB federal judges are prior NLRB attorneys (who represent the grievant).

All of the evidence pointed to a clear and reasonable right to terminate. The termination was overturned, and the employee was returned to work a year after termination and was subsequently elected to the office of Union President.

The National Labor Relations Board is nothing more than an extension of the ACLU and the EEOC. Just one more reason industries leave the north and often go offshore.

Every union sours the management-employee relationship in one or more ways.

If Sid could perform at a real job, he'd make a fair Union Shop Steward.

Can some of you disgruntled Nissan employees tell us what, exactly makes you unhappy at work....Other than thinking you're worth $28 bucks an hour and ain't gettin' it?

Let get rid of the police union too