Quoting Robert Donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
political contributions with which I disagreed. I was never able to get a straight answer as to where the rest of it went. They were listed as "administrative costs." I wouldn't be surprised to find that much of that translated to salaries of those who work directly for the Union. In
Like those people some unions pay to stand out there with signs that say things like "<random company> is a bad neighbor" and such. They did that to Qualcomm a few years ago. They handed out papers saying how the company was un-american for hiring a non-union construction company (ROEL I think) and how we're helping to erode the American dream, yadda yadda. Nice pic of a rat eating a US flag on there too. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there that just love having their dues go towards that crap.
fact, in all my time with the union, the only time the shop stewards(went through three of them) were ever interested in talking to me was the two or three time a year they came to ask for more money in some way. Strike fund, market share protection fund, etc, all of these
Same type of experience I had at my first job, which required us to join the Teamsters... loads of fun that was. I never really had an opinion on unions until after having to join one... I will _never_ do it again.
to pay for actual benefits. Personnally, I wouldn't have had a problem with paying for that portion of my dues that went to real benefits, but I see no reason that I or anyone else should be forced to adopt a political agenda in the process. It's a free speech thing. If California
In my case, at my first job... we didn't get any benefits from what I saw. As an extremely hard worker (who regularly had food-stand leads fighting over getting me, especially for closing) I couldn't get any recognition of said hard work because of the contract. I couldn't get any bonus, and raise, etc.. because all such things were spelled out in the contract and based purely on time worked. Kinda makes one not want to put out that extra effort after awhile.. and boy did I see a hell of a lot of slackers that did just the bare minimum required of them. The only arguement that anyone ever made to me that the union did was to get us more money. Even that, I think was crap... I'm pretty sure that, as hard a worker, and as good at the job as I was, I could've gotten myself more money if I could've negotiated for myself. As it was, we only made something like $6.13 when minimum wage was $5.25 or so.. so that huge union benefit wasn't even a $1/hour. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.miguelito.org Marge: "Homer, sitting that close to the TV can't be good for you." Homer: "Talking while the TV's on can't be good for you!" ==> Simpsons -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
