Good article. You are on a roll after months of blah.

The fun thing on the second job too was the “voluntary” political contribution to the union fund. Granted it was $2 a week, but it was my $2 and it was voluntary. When I asked to have that removed, I was told that everyone paid it and it went to a good cause.

So much for listening to the wants of the workers.

No way in hell I’m Paying for a SECOND BOSS!!! Corporate is ENOUGH!!!

The first was in retail where you had to join the union or you couldn’t have a job. The store went bankrupt and guess what, the shop stewards and all the union officers got compensation and help from the union in finding new jobs. Anyone who was in the union, paying dues every week, but did not take an active roll was shown the door and told not to make waves or they would be sorry.

Second union job was in a “professional” library setting. You couldn’t do anything outside of your job description, or even make a complaint about it. This worked out well when a tenured cataloger would catalog books on a drunken whim and it was up to us to have to find where they went. Get him fired or even make suggestions about what to do? Better not or you will never get a raise. This was told to me by the head of the union. So, instead of one boss, I had two.

If you ban together and start tearing down houses, you will be faced with a military that is extrememly well paid by the system. How well paid? First, they work roughly 35 hours a week, though rarely there are times they are at work 24-7 in the event of a war. During that war, however, it is likely they are the last company that will still be paid, well fed, and well maintained. Let us continue; they also recieve what is the equivalent of between 2 years and 6 ears of college educaiton, depending on how well they study while in the service and how much they earn via G.I. Bills. The government provides a rather nice housing allowance, enough to cover nearly 85-90% of most mortgages. Your smart servicemen will use this opportunity to invest in a house off base and then sell it when they have to move in order to capitalize on the equity. And did I mention either retirement or medical benefits?

If you go burning down houses, you and your whole lot will quite quickly end up in the slammer or slammed into the grave.

You have roughly twenty years from the time you are born to actively make the decisions that will guide your life for the rest of your life. It is your choice to focus and excel academically. It is also your choice to sluff off and do nothing. In either case, when you become an adult, you had best be prepared to be an adult because the training wheels come off! You HAD 20 years to PREPARE for adulthood!!

Nobody owes you a living and you don’t owe anybody anything you didn’t request.

Union Bosses are the most brilliant of all CEOs. The workers have been turned into a commodity and the only way to those workers is through the Union Boss. If unions truely represented the workers, then why are there these rich lush Union Owned estates?

The American worker became affluent because the companies they worked for prospered, and when companies are prosperous, everybody in the system is rewarded. Mind you, these companies were set up by ordinary Americans who had the luck and the intelligence to compete and be successful.

Perhaps you were not so lucky, but hoepfully you will instill in your children the will to strive towards and achieve greater heights than you were able to attain in your own lifetime.

Why?

Because they are spineless union hacks. If they had to go out there and defend themselves, they would curl up in a ball and be big balling balling babies.

why do some people work in the same place for 30 years?

and when the he!! are we going to see the end of the epithet ‘front line librarian’. ineffectual tough-talk that just sounds stupid.