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The GL is back, mainly because he’s had it with Unions. Never a fan in the past, now that Tiny Small is being pushed around because of OPSEU, he’s about to explode. The whole thing has damn near driven me Oobatz! It has convinced me that ‘organized workers’ are no better than ‘organized crime’. Let’s look at their mandates:
The Union: We exist to protect workers.
The Mob: We exist to protect you from all the bad guys.
The Union: As a collective, we can achieve more.
The Mob: As a collective, we can scare the shit outta anyone to get more!
The Union: The longer you’re with us, the more protection we can give you.
The Mob: The longer you’re with us, the more protection we can give you.
In a Union shop you are protected the longer you have been a member of the Local; or looking at it another way, the longer you have paid dues the more we’ll protect you (racketeering). It might be different if you had a choice to join, but in most cases you don’t (monopoly). This means that if Employee A has been at an employee for 20 years, and Employee B for 6 months, Employee A will have a shot at their job through the “bumping” process (being “made”). Even if employee B was hired as a skilled worker for a very specific job description, if the Union feels that Employee A can perform a percentage of that job, B is sent packing. It’s a purely subjective process, and subject to massive cronyism (collusion).
So, what the Union has accomplished in this case is stunting the future of a bright young employee, and replacing them with an older person who’s been doing a completely different job since Jesus was in short pants. A production killer if ever there was one. Employee A was rewarded not for exemplary job performance, or creativity, but for simply being able to stay alive at their station for a long time (stupidity).
Were you an employer, would this seem right to you? Let me rephrase that, we’re you anyone but Buzz Hargrove, would this seem right? Probably not, at least not too often here in Eastern Canada, so the number of NDP governments has been substantially stunted, although the Liberals are the new darlings of organized labour. (OL)
Now, the GL could go on and on about this, because this is obviously what happened to Tiny Small, despite the fact that she’s been continuously lauded by her employer. So the point, well, I suppose it’s a cautionary tale…you see a Union coming, you cross to the other side of the street, and keep individual power and responsibility alive. Nobody ever got rich off dumbed down mob mentality…except for the Unions, and the Mob.
More griping to come... GL
The Union: We exist to protect workers.
The Mob: We exist to protect you from all the bad guys.
The Union: As a collective, we can achieve more.
The Mob: As a collective, we can scare the shit outta anyone to get more!
The Union: The longer you’re with us, the more protection we can give you.
The Mob: The longer you’re with us, the more protection we can give you.
In a Union shop you are protected the longer you have been a member of the Local; or looking at it another way, the longer you have paid dues the more we’ll protect you (racketeering). It might be different if you had a choice to join, but in most cases you don’t (monopoly). This means that if Employee A has been at an employee for 20 years, and Employee B for 6 months, Employee A will have a shot at their job through the “bumping” process (being “made”). Even if employee B was hired as a skilled worker for a very specific job description, if the Union feels that Employee A can perform a percentage of that job, B is sent packing. It’s a purely subjective process, and subject to massive cronyism (collusion).
So, what the Union has accomplished in this case is stunting the future of a bright young employee, and replacing them with an older person who’s been doing a completely different job since Jesus was in short pants. A production killer if ever there was one. Employee A was rewarded not for exemplary job performance, or creativity, but for simply being able to stay alive at their station for a long time (stupidity).
Were you an employer, would this seem right to you? Let me rephrase that, we’re you anyone but Buzz Hargrove, would this seem right? Probably not, at least not too often here in Eastern Canada, so the number of NDP governments has been substantially stunted, although the Liberals are the new darlings of organized labour. (OL)
Now, the GL could go on and on about this, because this is obviously what happened to Tiny Small, despite the fact that she’s been continuously lauded by her employer. So the point, well, I suppose it’s a cautionary tale…you see a Union coming, you cross to the other side of the street, and keep individual power and responsibility alive. Nobody ever got rich off dumbed down mob mentality…except for the Unions, and the Mob.
More griping to come... GL
posted by Graydon Smith @ 1:51 p.m.
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