Comments on: Unions good for killing geese http://piedtype.com/2008/12/03/unions-good-for-killing-geese/ Old editors never die, they just revert to type Sun, 20 May 2012 22:13:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Terri http://piedtype.com/2008/12/03/unions-good-for-killing-geese/#comment-1486 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:29:45 +0000 http://piedtype.wordpress.com/?p=2902#comment-1486 P.S. Don’t get me started on the Teamsters. Yo. What do you mean I’m funny? Like I “amuse” you?
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As my sibs and I used to say, “Funny ha ha, not funny peculiar.” (You may be funny peculiar, but I’ve no evidence of that … yet.)

]]> By: Terri http://piedtype.com/2008/12/03/unions-good-for-killing-geese/#comment-1485 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:28:00 +0000 http://piedtype.wordpress.com/?p=2902#comment-1485 I hear you, particularly about the UAW. On the other hand, I can see the usefulness of a union for certain fields and professions. My mother worked for the water authority and she belonged to one, and my man is in law enforcement and he belongs to one. Hers made sure that their benefits were on par with the rest of the civil service. His makes sure that those who risk their lives every day make a fair wage and have appropriate disability should they get injured on the job (like he has). Neither one of them rake(d) in substantial amounts of money. He just does okay because he works nights (night differential) and puts in overtime. And in all honesty, the folks at Wal-Mart could probably use one if they don’t have one, as that worker was put in harm’s way to act like a security guard when he was a temporary janitor, and Wal-Mart is notorious for treating its employees like garbage. But it does indeed cheese me when I see people getting paid for standing around, or charging for 3 hours of work when they stayed an extra 15 minutes “because they’re union.”

Oh my, this comment is long. Sorry!
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No prob. I know your guy’s in law enforcement and was looking forward to your comment. I’d like to think he and your mom would have been fairly compensated without the existence of unions, but maybe that’s just my unrealistic idealism. I’ve no idea how we’d get rid of unions, either, since no one is going to willingly give up what they think are union-assured benefits.

(BTW, I believe cops and firefighters are not and cannot be paid nearly enough for the dangerous, self-less jobs they do.)

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