From Doug Ross.
The only thing I’d change is the valediction. Instead of “sincerely”, which, while fine, is a bit tepid, I’d have tried something with a dash more immediacy, like, say, “FOR CHRISSAKES, WAKE THE FUCK UP!”
But then I’m told I have a very direct manner. Which isn’t to everyone’s taste. Clearly.
I’ve been saying this since MY awakening in like 78? I was only 16 at the time and figured it out. Uniouns were destroying the steel, auto and farm s back then…AT SIXTEEN I knew this. Why don’t they get it?
oops….I CAN spell UNIONS If pressed…really hard…between a cupla ladies?
mr.b had this on the 3 am thread but i thought i’d post some it here:
the wisconsin judge sumi:
link
link
This letter only applies to non-government unions.
Democrats have sided with and are now indistinguishable from the political far-left; there’s been that undeniable shift leftward that’s accelerated since the ’60’s. The far-left is defined as anti-capitalistic, approaching the ideals of the communist system with ever-more-acceptable-to-Americans social programs. Since the far-left is anathema to business, especially businesses that employ large numbers of workers here in this country (companies that attract unions) it doesn’t take much mental horsepower to realize that union members are screwing themselves. When the reality finally becomes apparent to the masses of people who still want to work and are in (non-government) unions, that there are few businesses left to hire ’em and work ’em, then the union bosses (the non-government union bosses) might have some ‘splaining to do.
Maybe they’ll find themselves following in Jimmy Hoffa’s cement footsteps.
3 mandatory 15 minute breaks every hour.
Your buddy clocks you in so you can spend the day at Sudsy McBlowchunks, and you’ll get him tomorrow.
No one moves that box except a union guy (when he gets back from Sudsy’s).
The American Worker. It’s like a Chevy commercial.
Years ago, I had a friend who worked for the Connecticut DOT. He told me that seven guys sat around drinking (whatever) for seven hours, because they had to wait for the union “shop” to come and take a jackhammer back to “ground zero”, and then return it, when anyone on the crew could have fixed it in five minutes with a phillips head screw driver.
Sort of like NYC, where you can wait for hours for a member of the electrical union to change a fucking light bulb. BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH IT!
Thomas Jefferson seems to be coursing through my veins lately.
The smartest man (IMHOP) that ever existed in this country
SEIU-RICO
I need to stop reading the comics on Sundays, because the SF Chron runs Candorville.
Today’s baaaaaawwwwwwww, because in Wisconsin’s Public Labor Gulag®, teachers will be expected to instruct classes of 120 students while exposed to raw asbestos fibers and Africanized bees.
I am trying to figure out which is more ridiculous Pellegri: schoolteachers and janitors demanding safe working conditions, or firemen and the police?
When the reality finally becomes apparent to the masses of people who still want to work and are in (non-government) unions, that there are few businesses left to hire ‘em and work ‘em, then the union bosses (the non-government union bosses) might have some ‘splaining to do.
Meh, it’s the same game. On my way to work I pass by a place (a non-union shop, now) that makes insulation. They’re being picketed by a union, with reusable form-signs claiming they pay lower than the ‘area standard’ and a giant inflatable rat.
It’s a racket. They want a labor monopoly.
Chicago is one of the biggest private-sector union bastions around.
That is because they aren’t really private. They couldn’t survive without their quasi-legalized protection racket, government regulation, and government influence peddling.
You say “wait till they wake up” but they know – the private unions too, are full of lazy SOB’s who don’t much work and get payed based on seniority. They know they don’t work that hard despite getting payed more than anyone else in their field, and don’t want it to change.
I had an acquaintance work residential electric for a union company. He got hired and got a union card (after years of working non-union as an electrician – because unless you “know somebody” you have to wait your turn, and even in good economic times overpriced union businesses are rarely booming compared to the non-union side). He started busting his ass, hoping to catch attention. He caught attention – the foreman came and told him if he didn’t slow his ass down, the foreman would call the owner and demand him yanked from his job site (in which event the owners would probably can him).
Because you see, he was doing houses faster than anyone else. And if he’s knocking out a house service every 4 hours, and that gets back to the owners of the company, they’ll start thinking you can put a service on a house in 4 hours, and come cracking down on all the guys who are taking 16.
Old guys don’t like to climb ladders that fast. They had a good thing going. Someone actually busting ass could expose it.
But that’s not gonna happen, because he’ll be thrown off the jobsite before then. Who are the owner’s gonna believe, their Foreman of 14 years saying the new guy isn’t working and is causing problems, or the new apprentice they hired last week?
The stories I could tell you about Chicago’s private construction unions. They’re still using the Operations Manual written by Al Capone.
It starts off “A man becomes preeminent, he is expected to have… enthusiasms.”
Particularly out in Joliet.
You wouldn’t maybe think it. Chicago is the big city. Joliet is 45min-hour away, the nearest city to Chicago in IL you’ll likely find on a map, and generally thought of as Hicksville around here.
But out there they are worse than in the city. In Joliet the damn unions are really very extremely violent. They’ll spit, throw rocks, block access and supply deliveries to the site, break onto job sites at night and steal tools and damage equipment and structures.
It’s quite literally a protection racket.
You pay more to hire a union company because when you hire a union company, the union company doesn’t send it’s workers to trash your fuckin job site at night.
Folks, these Wisconsin tactics? They are just doing what they know.
BA’s following you around in cars, figguring out where you live, sending threatening calls late at night referencing your family…
But like most bullies they’re use to getting away with it. Stop until he gets bored and then start following the guy following you, he’ll call the damn cops. Punch back and half the time they just go away.