Originally Posted by flyer2
every time i hear union i want to vomit. The need for "unions" in the early1900's was a necessity to protect the people. I watched the pbs show on the copper mine war in the up of michigan and it was disgusting what our pillars of industry did to the workers.
I worked on the assembly line at frigidaire and was a member of the union and then as a foreman and engineer. I have nothing good to say. Gm screwed the delco white collar workers big time and it is not settled yet.
Uaw was responsible for ncr leaving town. Ncr had a retiree rate of about 80% - you went to work at ncr and you retired from ncr.
Uaw has about a 35% retiree rate.
So if you look at the dollars ncr had to pay retiree's it was the same amount for if you were a ncr union member or uaw member. So ncr bailed and 10,000 jobs left town.
Sorry about the rant but the union bosses along with the gm bosses were idiots.
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can we f'ing move this to the off topic thread???