I disagree about "all" the unions did for labor, the middle class we once enjoyed was as much the result of Henry Ford as it was the unions. I'm currently reading a book written in 1953 about Henry Ford and the auto firms he started (the Ford Motor Company was the 3rd firm he started, and was one of 4). Even before the unions got involved the auto plants were paying above average wages. The issue I have is with the government passing all the laws they have like Fair Labor Practices, OSHA and a host of others the government is now doing what the unions once did. So riddle me this batman, what in the hack are the Unions doing now? I don't know if my opinion of the Unions has been a shift in my attitude OR a shift in their function/attitude. My Dad was a Teamster and when I was in grade school was the shop steward, my only experience working in a union environment was in a county government and it was a lot different than the union activities of my Dad's day. I can remember one of the grievances my Dad settled, He worked at UPS and during the Christmas rush hey put a porter out in a truck to deliver packages. My Dad's response was if the company did that they had to pay the porter full driver's wages for the time he was on the truck, today's union would want the manager/supervisor fired and the practice outlawed and the company to hire an additional driver. An example or two from my county Government experience the contract we had with AFSCME clearly stated that "Maintenance overtime would be paid on the basis of a 40 hour week" I had 4 full time custodians working for me and one part time 15 hour a week custodian. 3 of the full timers worked 40 hour weeks, one 35 hour weeks. Weekend check of the county buildings was a task I assigned to a volunteer, but if no one volunteered I wasn't allowed to force anyone to do it. The 35 hour a week guy was volunteering for week end check and taking comptime rather than pay. My comptime balance number didn't match his, seems he felt he should be paid overtime for the 4 hours he worked on the weekend, I said no, they grieved it and lost, then filed another grievance asking I make the 35 hour week guy a 40 hour a week employee so he could get overtime for weekend check. Well I was 3 months into a budget and the county board had a new position/additional hours freeze in effect, so the only way to get the 35 hour week guy 40 hours was to take 5 hours from the part timer. The un-intended consequence was that with all custodians being 40 hour employees the part timer's benefits were figured on him being a 10 hour employee in a position where all full timers were 40 hours instead of him being a 15 hour a week employee with his benefit percentage being 43% figured as 15 hours against a 35 hour work week so my part time employee goes from being a 43% of full time to a 25% of full time (10 hours against 40 hours) so the amount of vacation he got was halved and his insurance cost tripled. So of course I'm the bad guy, I schedule the guy who went from 35 to 40 hours for weekend check and get another grievance, not from an employee but from the Union itself, the union wants all the additional or overtime hours to go to the part timer, but I'm not allowed to work him over his 10 hours a week. So the union negotiated away half of an employees benefit package so another employee could get overtime THEN negotiated away any over time for the employees and forced the part time employee to work every weekend and holiday. Today's union endorses politicians and ideologies that are contrary to the interests of the rank and file members (okay that's MY opinion), I mean how can a union representing coal miners endorse and support Barrack Obama and his environmental agenda? How can the UAW endorse and support Al Gore who wanted to eliminate the automobile? And how can any Union support candidates who want unrestricted immigration of minimally skilled workers into the US?
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