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<blockquote data-quote="FullAuto" data-source="post: 1983438" data-attributes="member: 5110"><p>We brought in the union at my previous job. I voted against it. Once it came in, after a few years, I became the Treasurer and then Vice President of the local. If you can't beat them, take over and run the joint. I discovered the treasurer prior to myself had stolen funds. The previous President was involved. I represented some of the biggest piles of crap in society. We had the NLRB on speed-dial. We screwed our contractor. We screwed the federal gov't. And it was all legal. When the federal employees had their pay frozen, we negotiated so we never got less than a 5% raise. I started at great pay for the job. When I left after 9.5 years, we had our starting pay over doubled what I started at (which was still good pay at the time). Taxpayers would puke if they knew what we got away with (and still do). </p><p></p><p>In the private sector, how well do you think a company would perform if their employees used 2-3 weeks of vacation per year, used 5 sick days per year, had 10 holidays, then missed an additional 30+ business days per year unexcused? That was 10% of our non-management employees... literally. We had two employees that in a calendar year had taken their 2 weeks vacation, 5 sick days, 10 holidays and missed over 70 additional business days. I think the high one was 83 unexcused days missed. I represented a girl that had over 40 unexcused days missed, negotiated her onto the "employee improvement program" which consisted on showing up to work for 30 consecutive calendar days without a call off. This was January so we had 2 holidays that month. She called off the second week and received a reprimand. LOL</p><p></p><p>We did have our good employees but about 40% were worthless and would have been fired if we weren't union. It was a total joke. I could tell tons of stories.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FullAuto, post: 1983438, member: 5110"] We brought in the union at my previous job. I voted against it. Once it came in, after a few years, I became the Treasurer and then Vice President of the local. If you can't beat them, take over and run the joint. I discovered the treasurer prior to myself had stolen funds. The previous President was involved. I represented some of the biggest piles of crap in society. We had the NLRB on speed-dial. We screwed our contractor. We screwed the federal gov't. And it was all legal. When the federal employees had their pay frozen, we negotiated so we never got less than a 5% raise. I started at great pay for the job. When I left after 9.5 years, we had our starting pay over doubled what I started at (which was still good pay at the time). Taxpayers would puke if they knew what we got away with (and still do). In the private sector, how well do you think a company would perform if their employees used 2-3 weeks of vacation per year, used 5 sick days per year, had 10 holidays, then missed an additional 30+ business days per year unexcused? That was 10% of our non-management employees... literally. We had two employees that in a calendar year had taken their 2 weeks vacation, 5 sick days, 10 holidays and missed over 70 additional business days. I think the high one was 83 unexcused days missed. I represented a girl that had over 40 unexcused days missed, negotiated her onto the "employee improvement program" which consisted on showing up to work for 30 consecutive calendar days without a call off. This was January so we had 2 holidays that month. She called off the second week and received a reprimand. LOL We did have our good employees but about 40% were worthless and would have been fired if we weren't union. It was a total joke. I could tell tons of stories. [/QUOTE]
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