Your Wages and Benefits are Fair. We’re Striking Anyway!

by | Jun 14, 2010 | Uncategorized

When asked the question as to why their employer objects to the prospect of its employees becoming a member of a labor union, I tell them that it has nothing to do with wages and benefits, because the truth is, the employer can generally maintain control over those costs in a collectively bargained workplace. The real fear can be found in this example of union irresponsibility, both to the employees it “represents” and the employer trying to maintain a competitive workplace. Teamsters Local 773 has decided that while the wages and benefits offered by the employer in question is decidedly “fair,” it has decided to strike anyway. Effective today! Union Representative Tim Groller commented: “The company wants the ability to just tell us what we’re going to do and send us where ever they want us to go for a day, a week, a month they can’t answer the question,” Groller said. He didn’t go so far as to mention what that question was, but perhaps it was “What will our members do to get those same fair wages and benefits after we muscle you out of business?”

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