Bye Bye Big Three?

whitey said
I work for a company with the UAW in it. Guarentee if it wasn't for the UAW, this 108 year old company wouldn't have made it that far. If companies would treat their employees half decent there would be no need for unions.
There have been text books written about how Mack tried to bust the union. If it wasn't for the UAW pushing their way into the southern plant, the company would have went belly up in the 80's. People were fired if they took too long in the restroom. Some people were hired and didn't even know what a pliers was.
Unions have their purpose but they also hurt. Seniority rules, I'll be loosing my job in less than a year. I do my share of work but I see guys with 35+ years do NOTHING... 0% work. They walk around and ***** about the company, talk about their cars, or what they did over the weekend and I'm the one doing the work.
So, before you ***** about the UNIONS..do some research and see how it has allowed people to put food on the table as well, and kept people from working 60 hour weeks for $7.50/hour with little or no benefits. then ***** about the people it does save and shouldn't. You want to *****, ***** about the corporate greed or the European companies buying up corporate america and moving it to mexico or to asia. hell thank our executive office for signing these trade agreements.

I am not "bitching" about anything. I am addressing a specific situation, and if you do not see that it is the UAW that is killing the auto industry then it is you who needs to do some research. What happened in other industries or with other companies has no bearing on this situation and doesn't mean a thing.

"Seniority rules, I'll be loosing my job in less than a year. I do my share of work but I see guys with 35+ years do NOTHING... 0% work. They walk around and ***** about the company, talk about their cars, or what they did over the weekend and I'm the one doing the work."

It looks like YOU are the one "bitching" about the union, while curiously defending it.

Claiming that Mack would have gone "belly up" if not for the union "pushing it's way in" is delusional. If their hiring and firing practices were so bad they would have folded up long before the union ever tried to get involved. That is how the market works. You either produce a good product at a good price and serve your customers well or you die. You can not fire good employees for "taking too long in the restroom" or hire morons who "don't even know what pliers are" and stay in business. And judging by what you said about your own situation, it seems obvious that it is the union, not the company, who is responsible for the retention of useless workers. Exactly the same as the situation at my one union job. Hmmm..... You say that "If companies would treat their employees half decent there would be no need for unions." I have been treated well at every job I have ever had EXCEPT for at my one union job. There, we were screwed by the union, and by the company with the union's full approval, just like your union is screwing both the company and YOU right now.