Liberal Supermajority

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Originally Posted by GhettoDogAllStars

Let's not forget, unions usually provide safer working environments and better trained workers.

The unions did at one time but in truth thanks to unions, we have the safer working environments today. The government has so many regulations that the need for unions is no longer needed. But I am not so sure of the "better trained workers." In a way the union hinders the training because it only lets people work on 1 thing. For example, let's say you work in maintenance and you need to weld something. At my plant the worker is allowed to weld the parts that need welded. At a union plant that maintenance worker has to call his boss to get a welder, then the welder has to call his boss to see if he is allowed to weld on that piece of equipment. Its just a lot of pissing around when 1 worker could have just done it and its over with. I believe that in non-union plants workers get to expand their career growth. In union plants you are stuck in one career because you may go against union regulations to do a simple task.

Another example of the unions uselessness is a that the union tried to get a friend of mine fired because he was going to school at the time and would stay at his machine during his breaks to work on homework. The union feared that this action made other workers look bad. Tell me that's not messed up...