CatherineM Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Union presidents always get invited when he comes to town. I have no idea why he picked Cushing, Oklahoma for a visit. It's possible that is the only city in Oklahoma that voted for him in the last election. I think the funniest part was my nephew was the one who told me. He said he saw a familiar bald spot in the TV coverage of Obama's visit. I'm glad that is the one thing I don't take after my dad, the baldness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r2Dtoo Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Unions do nothing but encourage laziness and mediocrity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 [img]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100617012316/callofduty/images/thumb/7/7e/Flamebait.jpg/180px-Flamebait.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 [quote name='r2Dtoo' timestamp='1332538322' post='2406567'] Unions do nothing but encourage laziness and mediocrity. [/quote] Don't Make Me Hurt You. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r2Dtoo Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I'm from VA. You Yankees have already done that. I'm unhurtable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Delta Air Lines was ranked the most admired airline in the world for 2011 by Fortune magazine. They consistently have the most well paid and happy employees among all the airlines. The difference between them and other airlines? Except for the pilots, their entire workforce is non-union. Coincidence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r2Dtoo Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Delta? DELTA??? LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!! It's no big secret to anyone who actually looks at the world's view of airlines that any airline in the United States is going to be at the bottom of the list. You're reading Fortune? Like they're not going to be biased. A more realistic list would be closer to this: http://airtravel.about.com/od/airlines/tp/skytraxbest10.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus_lol Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 should get MT to come in here and explain how much fun the non union nurses get to have in the states Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nola Seminarian Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 [quote name='r2Dtoo' timestamp='1332538322' post='2406567'] Unions do nothing but encourage laziness and mediocrity. [/quote] you sir are ignorant. my father, three cousins, and a great many family friends and they are the hardest working group of men i have ever met. these are men who work to provide food and support for their families. maybe you didnt grow up in a house where a member was a member of a union idk but check yourself before you spew your vitriol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r2Dtoo Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 [quote name='Nola Seminarian' timestamp='1332540296' post='2406600'] you sir are ignorant. my father, three cousins, and a great many family friends and they are the hardest working group of men i have ever met. these are men who work to provide food and support for their families.[/quote] Yes, most father's do that. The one's that don't, don't usually let you know they have children. [quote]maybe you didnt grow up in a house where a member was a member of a union idk but check yourself before you spew your vitriol.[/quote] No I didn't. I was raised to aspire to more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 wow. methinks I smell a troll, actually my keen senses smell a stealth member trolling, but I guess I could be wrong. aspiring to be more than the mere peasants members of unions doesn't make you good, it makes you an elitist whose attitude would have a little trouble making it through the eye of a needle. whatever your opinion of the modern union's practices, your comment is ridiculously out of line and yes, I said it, it reflects an attitude that will not get you to heaven. Jesus had no kind words for people with that kind of attitude. the present state of unions leaves much to be desired, but their theoretical existence is in part a guarantee against servitude and slavery. a truly free people has every right to stand up and strike against the employer class, to have the power to make a collective stand if they so wish it. when that power is not protected, we risk losing freedom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 [quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1332538888' post='2406581'] Don't Make Me Hurt You. [/quote] And now we see the violence inherent in the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 [quote name='r2Dtoo' timestamp='1332540486' post='2406602'] Yes, most father's do that. The one's that don't, don't usually let you know they have children. No I didn't. I was raised to aspire to more than that. [/quote] http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 [quote name='Winchester' timestamp='1332543448' post='2406630'] http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe [/quote] i love you for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slappo Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I'm part of a union and I wish I wasn't. Government union's aren't so hot, and they're the only experience I have with unions. I dish out a lot of money every pay check so my union can tell me all the things I can't do at work that I'd like to but go against my union contract. Such as I can't work a flex schedule at work unless my union signs into an agreement with the State that I can work a flex schedule... I can't make up time off on Friday on the following Monday even if it is part of the same pay period because my union requires we are paid and use leave based on a work week not on a pay period. I'm overtime exempt so the FLSA wouldn't prevent me from doing such a thing, but my union sure does. Oh... and they just took 3 hours of leave out of my leave account because the union ran out of leave... Unions have become nationalized rather than local. They don't follow the principles of subsidiarity. It isn't the factory workers rising up and forming a union in order to bargain for the benefits they want. It is all teachers in the united states forming a union, and all general government employees in the united states forming a union In the current state of things unions are pretty ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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