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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 88711" data-attributes="member: 99"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TYLERFAN</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hi family:</p><p>Workers here need more protections.....especially women! What he did, I believe produced alot of negative "karma" for him. What goes around, comes around. </p><p>Baby J is alot better today...... :smile: :bravo: :warrior:</p><p></p><p>Blessings,</p><p>Melissa :angel:</p><p> </div></div></p><p></p><p>First off, Mel, Big hugs. I hope that rat gets a hairball.</p><p></p><p>Secondly, to you and everyone else without a real contract and working in an "at-will" situation, I'm going to bring up what has unfortunately become a dirty word in the past couple of decades. UNION. </p><p></p><p>People complain because from time to time unions protect people who aren't worthy of it. It's absolutely true that this happens. But for every one guy who gets away with something, 1,000 others are protected. And the union goes to bat for the one guy hoping that the 1,000 others might even gain in the future, or at least hold on to what they already have at the next bargaining session do to their representation of the slob.</p><p></p><p>husband's boss complained to us that the linemen that work for their company are union, and the linemen's safety record is counted in with theirs at the end of the year when bonuses are given out. The couple hundred linemen are the only union workers in this company that employs tens of thousands. It probably wouldn't be that way if she and husband had a union to bargain with them, or they would have found a way around it, but instead they are offered a contract every year and if they don't like it they can quit. I told her flat out that if she didn't like what was in her contract it's because she didn't have any bargaining power. </p><p></p><p>This same company paid it's CEO a salary $750,000 in 2003, and a bonus (yep, the linemen's accidents counted against her too) was $1.3 million dollars. She left the company about 4 months later and she got a $3.75 million severance package. husband got an $8,000 bonus. His boss probably got $12,000. It seems to me that they could use a union. Dues are a lot less than what people have given up in benefits in the past 20 years, falling for B. S. that unions are robbing from them. Unions protected people like them for a century, and gave us most of the safety and fairness regulations on the law books. WTHeck does that woman need with $5 million in one year when she walked away from her job after making a profit by laying 1,000's of people off? </p><p></p><p>OK, I'll get off my high horse now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 88711, member: 99"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TYLERFAN</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hi family: Workers here need more protections.....especially women! What he did, I believe produced alot of negative "karma" for him. What goes around, comes around. Baby J is alot better today...... [img]:smile:[/img] [img]:bravo:[/img] [img]:warrior:[/img] Blessings, Melissa [img]:angel:[/img] </div></div> First off, Mel, Big hugs. I hope that rat gets a hairball. Secondly, to you and everyone else without a real contract and working in an "at-will" situation, I'm going to bring up what has unfortunately become a dirty word in the past couple of decades. UNION. People complain because from time to time unions protect people who aren't worthy of it. It's absolutely true that this happens. But for every one guy who gets away with something, 1,000 others are protected. And the union goes to bat for the one guy hoping that the 1,000 others might even gain in the future, or at least hold on to what they already have at the next bargaining session do to their representation of the slob. husband's boss complained to us that the linemen that work for their company are union, and the linemen's safety record is counted in with theirs at the end of the year when bonuses are given out. The couple hundred linemen are the only union workers in this company that employs tens of thousands. It probably wouldn't be that way if she and husband had a union to bargain with them, or they would have found a way around it, but instead they are offered a contract every year and if they don't like it they can quit. I told her flat out that if she didn't like what was in her contract it's because she didn't have any bargaining power. This same company paid it's CEO a salary $750,000 in 2003, and a bonus (yep, the linemen's accidents counted against her too) was $1.3 million dollars. She left the company about 4 months later and she got a $3.75 million severance package. husband got an $8,000 bonus. His boss probably got $12,000. It seems to me that they could use a union. Dues are a lot less than what people have given up in benefits in the past 20 years, falling for B. S. that unions are robbing from them. Unions protected people like them for a century, and gave us most of the safety and fairness regulations on the law books. WTHeck does that woman need with $5 million in one year when she walked away from her job after making a profit by laying 1,000's of people off? OK, I'll get off my high horse now. [/QUOTE]
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