Not in the slightest, but if he can prove that a more capable job can be done for less, why should the city pay more? Clearly there are jobs available within this industry if he is able to run a private business within the space.Not that I give a rat's ass about this particular situation, but do you two honestly believe this guy is "volunteering" to clean up parks in the city because dirty spaces offend him?
Have you ever been a union member? Have you ever worked as anything other than a handler and siphoner-off of other people's money? If not, then consider STFUing, plz.I've said it once, and will say it again. Unions for public employees are not necessary and are parasites. They will eventually kill the host.
What I find even more ironic is the guy with socialized health care starting the anti-union threads.Have you ever been a union member? Have you ever worked as anything other than a handler and siphoner-off of other people's money? If not, then consider STFUing, plz.
How so? Tax money goes to fund socialized medicine. How is that even remotely related to unions? My ability to hold onto my job, and salary increases are based on my performance, and not because of my seniority or arbitrary union rules.What I find even more ironic is the guy with socialized health care starting the anti-union threads.
I suppose the idea is that by being employed, you are pretty much guaranteed decent healthcare. That's not always the case in the states, and unions often play a part in securing such benefits.How so? Tax money goes to fund socialized medicine. How is that even remotely related to unions?
Yes I did at UPS during college. The dues were high, I HAD to join to work there, and I found a job paying more (once dues were factored in) working in less manual labor job.Have you ever been a union member? Have you ever worked as anything other than a handler and siphoner-off of other people's money? If not, then consider STFUing, plz.
sounds like the people we vote for every 2/4/6 years....handler and siphoner-off of other people's money?
my younger brother loaded trucks at UPS......some of the dumbest fvcking drivers in the world.Yes I did at UPS during college.
That about sums it up.I suppose the idea is that by being employed, you are pretty much guaranteed decent healthcare. That's not always the case in the states, and unions often play a part in securing such benefits.
Which is also the case for non-union workers in the US too, n'est-ce pas?I suppose the idea is that by being employed, you are pretty much guaranteed decent healthcare. That's not always the case in the states, and unions often play a part in securing such benefits.
Yes, because a part-time job in college is the same thing as a full time job that pays well enough to support a family and has things like "health care," "vacations," and "weekends."Yes I did at UPS during college. The dues were high, I HAD to join to work there, and I found a job paying more (once dues were factored in) working in less manual labor job.
Not at all.Which is also the case for non-union workers in the US too, n'est-ce pas?
UPS generally frowns upon full time workers.Yes, because a part-time job in college is the same thing as a full time job that pays well enough to support a family and has things like "health care," "vacations," and "weekends."
I laughed to myself thinking of a hypothetical scenario where a cop, firefighter or corrections officer would be complaining about working conditions.^^^^^^Oh yeah, and police, firefighters or jailhouse guards never need to fight for better working conditions...
So, I'm assuming he sends back that pension check every month?But in all seriousness, my old man was on the FDNY for 22 years and he has nothing but great disdain for the union, more so for the incompetent and greatly uneducated people that were elected as the union's leader when he was on the job.
Ask him what idiots kept electing those leaders...But in all seriousness, my old man was on the FDNY for 22 years and he has nothing but great disdain for the union, more so for the incompetent and greatly uneducated people that were elected as the union's leader when he was on the job.
Contributing money to an incompetent bureaucracy for 22 years while performing a very hazardous (and necessary) job to the best of your abilities does not necessarily equal seppuku during retirement.So, I'm assuming he sends back that pension check every month?
Because the profit motives of a corporation are going to cost more than the premium for the non-skilled work, And if you had any basic understanding of how economics works you would know that more money at the bottom goes through the system more times and actually does more good.Not in the slightest, but if he can prove that a more capable job can be done for less, why should the city pay more? Clearly there are jobs available within this industry if he is able to run a private business within the space.
I agree that jobs such as yours need to be govt run, because the ability and incentive for a company to skew data is great. But with a job cleaning the streets and parks? That's non-skilled labor. Why should cities be paying a premium for non-skilled labor?
Re read some history books and you might understand what unions have done for us, unions on the GI bill created the middle class (yep, socialist programs) and destroying them can and is destroying the middle class.Yes I did at UPS during college. The dues were high, I HAD to join to work there, and I found a job paying more (once dues were factored in) working in less manual labor job.
Please explain to me why unions are needed for public employees though. I am fully in support of unions for high risk jobs: Iron Workers, Miners, etc. What benefit do I, as a person having my dollars siphoned off (see taxes)to pay these workers, receive from these individuals?
Like clockwork, and now he needs a place to live. I'm assuming you'll open up your home.So, I'm assuming he sends back that pension check every month?
No can do, have to keep the spare bedroom in case my parents end up there. My dad's pension fund was dissolved in the mid 1990s since it was "overfunded", and so his company cashed it out, handed him a check for $8k (after working there for 25+ years), and told him he was on his own to figure out how to save up enough money for retirement in the following 10 years. Thank god my mother still has a fully funded pension, but that's only because of that evil public union that I keep hearing about. If we could have gotten rid of that I'm sure they would do the same thing to her pension as my dad's company did to his.Like clockwork, and now he needs a place to live. I'm assuming you'll open up your home.
by 'electing', do you mean by secret ballot (how most of us think about it), or where the vote is made known, which is a tool of intimidation, like my fat black cockAsk him what idiots kept electing those leaders...
yeah, but going rate for watersports is also beholden to market forces. you going to subsidize my various fetishes just to get board members involved?And if you had any basic understanding of how economics works you would know that more money at the bottom goes through the system more times and actually does more good.
So, I'm assuming he sends back that pension check every month?
So if your dad hates unions but loves his monthly pension check, tell him he could have ended up like 90%+ of the (non-union) private sector who got to watch their "retirement plans" go up in smoke.
Who said anything about "earning" their pension? Of course they've earned it because it's considered deferred compensation. Corporations don't care. State governments don't care. If they could cash it out and take the money they would (and have) do it in a heartbeat. The only thing that is protecting most people (currently working) with pensions these days is the fact that their employer has a contract with their union to provide it. It's why most private, non-union workers these days *don't* have a pension. They were cashed out years ago, with some of the money going into annuities to provide benefits for those who had already retired, some of the money going to employees (like my father), and the VAST MAJORITY of the money going to the owners of the company.There are people out there that actually do the work to earn their "monthly check" as you so casually put it. If you were to spread your career out in Flatbush, Spanish Harlem, but mostly in the South Bronx I'd bet you would say you earned your pensions too.
On top of this my dad also employed 3-4 guys year round on the side as a contractor. So, there was no way he could have ended up like those 90%. Due to the simple fact that he wasn't relying on 1 revenue stream for the rest of his life.
http://www.gs.columbia.edu/retired-fdny-firefighter-reignites-his-passion-2008-06-06
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i would think the union involved here would be a 'good union'The top five execs have reaped $100 million in bonuses since 2005, while the carrier lost more than $4.2 billion. In 2003, the flight attendants agreed to cuts in pay and benefits worth $340 million annually, which they say kept American out of bankruptcy.
Hey JBP,Please explain to me why unions are needed for public employees though. I am fully in support of unions for high risk jobs: Iron Workers, Miners, etc. What benefit do I, as a person having my dollars siphoned off (see taxes)to pay these workers, receive from these individuals?
don't fvck with methusalah....Hey JBP,
I'm still wait for a response to this one... I know it has been three days and all, but you should have had time to write something up by now.
Are you really trying to claim that no public workers have high-risk jobs?Hey JBP,
I'm still wait for a response to this one... I know it has been three days and all, but you should have had time to write something up by now.
That they are going to go the store and actually spend that money. It will then go through the system a few more times, potentially through your hands.Hey JBP,
I'm still wait for a response to this one... I know it has been three days and all, but you should have had time to write something up by now.
Flip that coin over, and you have a corporation. Odd that...All unions do now is claw for unaffordable perks that they don't deserve in the first place.
And what about the money taken out of the paychecks of those who are not in the unions? What would happen if they could put their money into the system? What makes it right for their money to be taken to allow others to put it into play?That they are going to go the store and actually spend that money. It will then go through the system a few more times, potentially through your hands.
Or we can do the "trickle down" method and write the financial industry a trillion dollar welfare check that we will see none of.
All this info is strait out of my econ 191 book too, it's pretty basic stuff.