Juggernaut
Senior Heliman
Location: Canada, Great White North
My Posts This: Topic Forum | I also don't like what Union's are doing to our economy and companies
They foster laziness and contempt.
All workers are treated equally (pay wise), this creates a poor work aptitude, "why should I work hard if my co-work is lazy and only does minimum work, and gets the same pay", or "I have my seniority I won't be layed off, so I don't have anything to prove"
Union personal do not tell the employees everything, and only tell them what they can get, regardless of the state of the company.
The Union members I met in the past, were ex-workers, with little or no financial or business education.
My wife worked for a union shop, for 15 years, when she was let go, the Union rep stated to a another Union rep, "We just lost more money"
The Unions Don't care about the company, they just care to keep themselves looking good, by making excesses, to protest their a$$.
example, the company is doing poorly dues to poor financial planning, and bad decisions, nothing to do with 3 months of vacation time, 20K in benefits per person, 20 sick days, 3 - 5% a year increases, while the economy is bad or poor sales.
Frankly, the only poor planning was giving into the Unions demands
What a lot of workers who do go on strike do not know what they are getting into
Example:
Worker makes $50,000 a year
that's $962.00 a week pay ( 25.64 /Hr for 37.5 Hr work week )
say they ask for 3% increase a year for 3 years
Year 1 = $ 51,500
Year 2 = $ 53,045
Year 3 = $ 54,636
3 year gained $9,181 less takes say 40% $5,508
Now if they go on strike
Week Lost total
1 $962.00
2 $1924.00
3 $2886.00
4 $3848.00
5 $4810.00
6 $5772.00
Not much of a gain now is it
Guess what you been on strike say for 6 weeks the Union pay pennies.
My friend lost his 2nd car, and took a line of credit after 3 years still paying it down.
Also for Ontario's
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| Labour disputes
If a strike, a lockout or other form of labour dispute where you work causes you to lose your job or prevents you from going to work, you will generally not be paid EI benefits. The following conditions apply whether you are a union member or not and whether your job is part or full-time.
You may, however, be eligible to receive benefits if:
* you are not taking part in the dispute;
* you are not giving money directly to support the dispute; and
* you are not directly interested in the dispute — i.e. your wages or working conditions, etc., are not affected by the outcome of the dispute.
If you are taking part in a labour dispute, you are not eligible for EI until :
*
the strike or lockout is over; or
*
you have found another regular job where you pay EI premiums.
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http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/....shtml#eligible
What the Union does not want you labour's to know
basically means if you sign your Union labour card, your screwed.
If you don't means, you have a possible out.
"you are not taking part in the dispute;"
For other Unions they provide improved and safer work conditions, not going to fault them for this, and require praise.
But above an beyond they they are a hindrance to the economy and a poor excess for their existence.
Finally learned to fly inverted, Helps if you stand on your head
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