RE: More Unions

["Sean O'Donoghue-Hayes (EPA)" <Sean.O'Donoghue-Hayes -at- ericsson -dot- com -dot- au>]

Hi all,

First of all Unions are the scum of the Earth - their mere existence makes
for higher prices, less flexibility, and more meddling in the important day
to day affairs of business. They taint capitalism with a sickening cancer.
They suck the life of companies, and strip employers of the ability to
manage. All unionists should be shot at dawn as the damn commies and red
sympathisers that they are.

When you have employers, such as Andrew Plato, being placed in the position
where his company would be threatened, blackmailed, by such unscrupulous
manipulators of the common technical writer - threatened with strikes over
minimum conditions such as having to provide a minimum wage, defence against
unfair dismissals and the idea that someone should only work a 40 hour week
it makes you realise how blood thirsty unions are - and it is true that shop
stewards have been known to catch children, drain the blood from them, and
swill it from large gold mugs as they sign off on another wildcat strike
that their members don't approve of and authorising another few million of
the workers health fund to prop up their ailing Vegas casino operations.

As Andrew said: "I've busted my ass over the years to make my employees
happy - including forgoing my own pay check to pay their pay checks."

And as an employer I suspect that Andrew would be an exemplary example of
management to work for - but if he is so keen on his staff why would he have
any problems with them having, excuse the lingo here, a "safety net" of a
minimum wage, perhaps access to cheap medical and life insurance, maybe a
credit union to provide cheap housing loans, access to a representative who
can provide another view on exactly what that work contract they are signing
means, or if the dismissal of all workers who spoke with a slight Mexican
accent was reasonable or perhaps a case of unfair dismissals based on ethnic
racism?

Andrew gave up his own paycheck to his staff out of love for his fellow man,
at no time did he hope his company might one day make him a profit. 

Unions in the USA seem to be a little to the right of Attila the Hun, and
very far left of Marx and Lenin. They foam at the mouth, torch the bosses
houses, and instigate at least fifteen frivolous legal proceedings before
breakfast. This may well be true in America.

Here in Australia we also have unions. As pointed out in other emails closed
shops are now, mostly, a thing of the past. So the unions here offer - oh
god how could they, the charlatans - customer service (admittedly customer
service in most instances of the world means waiting on a phone for five
hours listening to a recording before being transferred to a call centre in
the Crab Nebula.....) and services beyond just telling the boss we are going
to close down the factory, everybody out. They have credit unions, and
health services, and legal advice, and even at one stage cheap petrol
stations. 

Why? To show that by bonding together as a large group discounts, and
benefits, could be gained. 

Some of those "lay-off" stories that were running on this email list a while
ago made me wonder how companies could get away with it. There was one that
mentioned everyone divided into too different rooms.....one had almost all
WASP males, the other had everyone else. Perhaps there was good reasons for
this type of sacking, but it sounds discriminatory to me.

Pete points out, in so many words, "like it, lump it or move on". Admirable
views - but not if things reach the level where all employers decide that 60
hour weeks are normal, and that sacking will occur randomly, without cause,
because you are a damned Yankees fan, and twice as worse a woman who
complained about my affectionate pat on your backside every morning!

I am guessing Pete is male, and well educated - just the type of person
employers seem to love - you're unlikely to take much maternity leave, and
you know the rules and laws well enough so we won't even try and get rid of
you. Pete said that by leaving an employer his project would run behind,
there would be other costs to the company - I have seen many great workers
leave companies and I am sure Pete is great at what he does - they are a
mere blip on the workforce, the workload, the project. Soon they are
forgotten. If it was for an idealistic stand over some wages issue they'll
be forgotten even sooner. Leaving a company is not going to hurt it or
hinder the project - because there should always be enough "support" in
place to cover your loss if you were hit by a train, or a bus, going to work
anyway. None of us are indispensable.

There are bad unionists who will rip money off people and run, there have
been companies known to do the same thing. When companies abruptly go under,
the owner retiring to his five car garage villa on fifteen acres, and the
employees find that there isn't enough money to even pay them the wages they
were owed for work previously done - well then I think a union might be
handy to help them out.

Remember - Unions are bad. Unionists drink blood. Union leaders spend their
union's money on Vegas casinos and call girls. Unions will fool you because
you are too dumb to know when they are misleading you. Unions are bad. As
G.Gecko said : "Greed is good".

Hope this helps everyone understand.    

regards and thanks, 
Sean O'Donoghue-Hayes

"Not currently a member of a union."

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