Comments on: Employee Free Choice Act: The Teamsters Want You!

By: UPS Employee

UPS Employee — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:59:52 +0000

Any idea why union dues recently increased. Would have been nearly 5-6 months ago. I went from paying 20 dollars a month off my feable income to 30 dollars. That’s the electric bill right there.

I work hard, too damn hard to be paying a group of lobbyists who don’t do anything to steal my money. I see what they do to our hub. All the slackers can’t get fired, so we have a bunch of slumps bumming around doing “safety” questioneres to workers and getting paid the same rate.

How do you kill a union?

By: admin

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:20:37 +0000

With regards to the EFC Act why doesn”t the Republican Party hardily support it with
the caveat “the same rules that apply for starting a union must apply for voting one out. It would be fun to watch the democrats squirm to explain why this is not fair to all. Might change the whole dynamic. If the statistics
are true and the first negotiated agreement is not as good as what the workers originally had the unions would be voted out in droves. Just a
thought.

By: Cullen Gibson

Cullen Gibson — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:08:14 +0000

Why would anyone want to pay someone to talk for them? The union is a business that preys on employees emotions and justifies their existence by keeping the employee/employer relationship strained. Big labor is over because the high paying jobs are a thing of the past. You now will need to get a post high school education to make it in the midst of globalization. The union ideologies will not be accepted by the next generation of workers.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:25:50 +0000

Little hard to take you serious when your ramblings are hardly inteligible. You can’t be serious about supporting the union when they are not taking care of you. Oh wait, you aren’t working and therefore not paying dues. They have no use for you right now it appears. Maybe if you sent them a check….no, I doubt it. As a former union member and officer in the local, I can tell you unions do not care about the business you work in. They only care about their business of collecting dues and paying their fat cats. Have you ever bothered to figure out how much you paid over the years in dues? I bet that money would help you now in the time of unemployment. Did you know that there are union pensions that are under funded? Responder Admin makes several solid points. I hope you read his comments.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:45:56 +0000

Nothing like working for the Teamsters for free… sounds like a great deal. For them.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:44:59 +0000

This one is pretty funny. “My union has not helped me for 2 years… I love my union.” That “vested pension” is only as good as the company that provided it, and in many cases unionized companies are crashing along with the pensions and health benefits they provide to retirees. That result is tragic for everyone involved, but the point is that unions don’t provide pensions, benefits or wages to workers – companies provide these things. And if the company fails, all these things go away (when the government bails out these pension plans they pay pennies on the dollar, and in the end it is all our taxes that provide that money). Like it or not, the best way to ensure that these benefits are delivered is to do everything possible to ensure the long-term health of companies. Companies can be better managed and there are lots of examples of greed and mismanagement – but this happens in unionized companies just as much as it does in non-union ones, and we definitely don’t argue that companies should not provide great pay and benefits to employees. But in the end the only way these benefits are provided is if the companies survive, and unions normally hurt the competitiveness of companies and don’t help it.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:35:40 +0000

We don’t think that unions are evil or that companies aren’t evil. There are poor managers of companies and poor leaders of unions, and there are politics in unions and politics in companies. In the end the choice workers have to make (at least now, when there actually is a choice…) is whether they will be better off dealing directly with their company or whether they will be better off dealing through a union (and paying money to that union for its services). No company is perfect, but in the vast majority of cases the direct relationship is superior for both the company and the employee. Unions promise a lot of things and (especially in today’s world) they usually fail to deliver.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:30:46 +0000

I am so confused by this comment that I’m not sure what to say – I don’t think this is a liberal or conservative issue (which is a pretty simple-minded way of looking at the world, anyway). As far as jobs, unions (or Big Labor) don’t provide many of them (even these so-called jobs offered by the Teamsters are “volunteer” positions). Companies provide jobs – and the more competitive and profitable the company is, the more jobs it will provide. Unfortunately unions don’t do much to make companies more competitive and in most cases they severely hamstring and in a flat economy that is the quickest way to become extinct (see the “big” 3 automakers).

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:38:02 +0000

Teamsters are evil.I know because I belonged to one local. There are all political. Should be wiped out.

By: Festus Markus

Festus Markus — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:16:38 +0000

Lets start with removing the suspicious Al Franken and weirdo Specter from Senate