brain-damaged primitive's three years from retirement

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022279194#post85

Oh my.

mike_c (31,220 posts)    Tue Jan 29, 2013, 04:02 PM

why are you not in a labor union...?

In light of recent news on the decline of labor unions in the U.S., particularly private sector unions that currently organize less than 7% of the U.S. workforce, I'm wondering why the other 93% of the private work force has walked blahblahblah

michreject (4,175 posts)    Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:20 PM

84. Retired from GM/UAW local 160

GM Tech Center, Warren, MI.

DainBramaged (36,616 posts)    Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:26 PM

85. Nice

GREAT local.

Region 9 Local 153. Made blazers and S10's in Edison in the 80's. And I owned Blazers till they stopped making them in '04.
 
Three years till retirement.

The Union is a shell of it's former self. And it is sad.

mike_c (31,220 posts)    Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:32 PM

86. good luck with your retirement, my friend....

I've got five or six more years. But with CALPERS behind my pension, I'm about as confident as any American not sitting in Congress can be that my pension will be there when I'm ready. Why don't more Americans DEMAND that?

^^^

[Delmar]

Response to mike_c (Original post)Tue Jan 29, 2013, 05:05 PM
 yellerpup (10,546 posts)
53. I am not eligible for union membership

but I am a member of the Dramatists Guild which does have rules that protect playwrights.

Waiter.

[Freeper]

Why don't more Americans DEMAND that?

Because some of us don't go around demanding that other people do things for us.

[Carl]

Gosh,maybe because even when we are in recession unions demand 3-5% pay raises just because sort of sours people.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Gosh,maybe because even when we are in recession unions demand 3-5% pay raises just because sort of sours people.

That, and little tricks like seeing the junior half of the membership laid off permanently rather than the senior half being willing to make any wage or benefit concessions when the employer inevitably gets into financial distress over the runaway labor costs.  That tends to kind of sour the junior half on the value of the whole thing.