Unions were designed to keep women and children from working umpteen hours a day. Now they exist for no reason but greed.

I guess Guido will be at my door tomorrow.

 

yep, the unions are nothing but outdated relics of the turn of the century.

 

Just like Harley's...(r,d,h)

20 century for run, duck, hide

 

o btw, just to celar up future confusion ( i thinkdave knew what i meant), but i mean't the
1900 turn of the century

 

LOL, gotcha cowboy.

 

I totally agree. They helped save my dads job a few times for dumb stuff that wasn't his fault - like ohhh I don't know, maybe having a friggin Ford Escort pull in front of him on glare ice and hit the brakes as he's pulling5 million dollars in paper rolls on a semi and going off a bridge in an effort not to crush the little bastard.

Or maybe when he had to swing wide to make a right hand turn in the city and having someone try to squeeze their car in.... well it got squeezed all right.

But realistically they have done their jobs. People aren't working 120 hours a week... well maybe if your salary.... but they choose to do these things. People are getting vacations, and there isn't a 80 person line waiting for someone to die so they can take over their job.

A good book on this is "The Jungle". Loved it.

 

The unions put my dad out of work for 6 months for a strike when we were young.

In 1975 he was already making 26 bucks an hour.

They drove us to bankruptcy needless to say.

 

Holy god. My dad was only making about6 an hour at that time and for a good papermill. Thinking about it I'm not even sure he made that much. I do remember him being on strike in the early 80's. Thankfully he knew how to save money and cut a check for the house and cars instead of having loans.

 

Actually that was my good news today as well. 7,900 left on the Monte loan and 30,500 and I'll totally own the house!!!

 

Thankfully my mom was a full time office manager.

We still went bankrupt though but she paid for all five of us to finish Catholic school.