What is your weather like ... today

[Big Lou]

Cathy and I are praying for a discovery and cure dear Sissy.

 

[Big Lou]

I am very happy for you Collen. Truly hope you get back to work soon.

Some may not agree yet I am of the opinion that unions are definately needed in some instances but not in others. Colleen, here in America we have a "Right-to-work" law. Instead of me trying to explain I'm providing Wikipedia's provides explanation of this federal statue.

A "right-to-work" law is a statute in the United States that prohibits union security agreements, or agreements between labor unions and employers, that govern the extent to which an established union can require employees' membership, payment of union dues, or fees as a condition of employment, either before or after hiring. "Right-to-work" laws do not, as the short phrase might suggest, aim to provide a general guarantee of employment to people seeking work, but rather are a government regulation of the contractual agreements between employers and labor unions that prevents them from excluding non-union workers,[1] or requiring employees to pay a fee to unions that have negotiated the labor contract all the employees work under.

Right-to-work provisions (either by law or by constitutional provision) exist in twenty-four U.S. states, mostly in the southern and western United States, but also including, as of 2012, the northern states of Michigan[2] and Indiana.[3] Business interests represented by the Chamber of Commerce have lobbied extensively to pass right-to-work legislation.[4][5][6][7] Such laws are allowed under the 1947 federal Taft–Hartley Act. A further distinction is often made within the law between those employed by state and municipal governments and those employed by the private sector with states that are otherwise union shop (i.e., pay union dues or lose the job) having right to work laws in effect for government employees.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Well I have worked in the Army, and in a unión Office, and non union places too, and I find having a good unión is the best, no debating that for me. Private sector jobs can have lots of negitive issues too. Every unión is different, and the fact that 98% voted to strike, speaks volumes. Only 2 out of nearly 380 from my Store alone crossed the line. That too speaks volumes. We are no longer getting a pay cut, now since the strike we are getting two raises and back pay too. We work very hard and very few people there can get away with doing nothing. I am back to work now, as are all the employees.

In Michigan when the auto industry fell, the unions lost lots of power. Now that city is mostly the very rich or the very poor, the middle class is gone! That is what happens when the union jobs go, people get very very poor...

 

[Big Lou]

I wish you peace and harmony my friend.

 

[CountryEscape]

So, Colleen, I have to ask. Is there anyone that works where you work, and tends to go behind the shelves and hide out, doesn't work half as hard as you, but finds "busy work" to make them look busy, when in reality they are not really working or holding up their end of the work day? That's the person who does not deserve to be in a union. But, that person is also the one that would scream bloody murder if someone called them on the table on their work ethics. If that "non-working" person were reported to the union, that person would be the one to step up and say it was everyone else's fault, and make for a HUGE issue between union and employees. That's what happened with the scenario that I spoke about. She was guilty as heck, and yet she turned the tables on everyone, got very expensive lawyers (which the union had to provide and pay for) to fight her issue. In the end, she feels she won, but in my mind, they swept her under the table and put her someplace else to whine.
It's the hard working people like you and me that deserve to have a union backing them up, but it's the lazy people that make life hell for the union stewards all the time! Strikes are a piece of cake compared to complaints about lazy and stupid people. They use the union to keep them from being fired, when in reality that's exactly what should happen to them. :blueflower:

 

[CountryEscape]

Sissy, saying a prayer for you ... again and daily many times, until I hear from you again! Hoping the next news will be they have found the "leak" and have repaired it! God be with you both.

 

[callingcolleen1]

You will always have some people who work hard at doing very little, in unión and non union jobs alike, but it is very hard to get away with that at my job, cause fresh stuff has to move on the self quick or the next shift will see that nothing got done and you get wrote up. If you get lots of write ups and pictures can be taken of stuff not done and you can be fired! People do not get away with doing nothing where I work, very hard to get away with that.

Non union places are sometimes much MUCH worse, people get corrupt and move to the top by sleeping their way there, and then hire their kids who do nothing and get way more than people who work very hard and been their much much longer. That is way way worse, that is how many companies go broke.

Many of the places that went bust in 2008, the top people got very greedy and gave themselves big raises while these places where going broke. This is one of the reasons that the USA is suffering so bad right now, it is called GREED and without a GOOD union, you can get away with this till you rob the company blind!!!

GO UNION, you will be treated more fair all around!

 

[callingcolleen1]

Yes, we are all very worried about you Sissy! God be with you....

 

[j.w]

Going to get a union going here for unfair weather temperature/precipitation fluctuations :biggrin:
WE DEMAND AT LEAST 2&1/2 DAYS OF WARM/DRY WEATHER HERE PER WEEK! Otherwise we go on strike..............we will stay inside all winter and burn lots of wood and do nothing but sleep and watch tv and computer......................wait! Sheesh we already do that :biggrinangelA: Back to the drawing board :bye2:

 

[Big Lou]

We are going to get a union to protect us from the heat and to bring us more rain. I've got an idea! Maybe our union can work with your union J.W.. Then we we both get some of the weather we want. LOL

 

[callingcolleen1]

Good day to play with my big old doll my hubby got out of the trash can, 40 years ago. She started out as Eaton's Manikin doll, then hubby saved her from the trash can, and called her Gladrelle. I have her now, and I have just give Gladrelle a "makeover"!

She used to be a very scary mummy, now I have her as a "trashy sexy witch" ! This should get hubby more "excited" ha ha hahaha

BeFORE .... MuMMy
NOW ......... Trashy WitCh!!!

 

[HARO]

Reminds me of my mother-in-law!
John

 

[addy1]

Wet wet wet, love it, we need it so bad. 1.04 inches so far

 

[j.w]

Yep Lou that would be nice if we could share our weather. Little warmth and dry from you and a little moisture...........well maybe a lot of moisture from us!

 

[MitchM]

Snowing here now.