Comments on: Lowering The Costs Of Political Defeat http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2006/11/04/lowering-the-costs-of-political-defeat/ You don't have to be a pessimist to be a realist Thu, 8 Jan 2009 23:13:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: peterthebellhop http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2006/11/04/lowering-the-costs-of-political-defeat/#comment-3 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:25:14 +0000 http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2006/11/04/lowering-the-costs-of-political-defeat/#comment-3 Most of our poorly performing business's problems have unions and union contracts getting in the way of adjusting the way they do business. Why is it that union membership has fallen to a low of roughly 8.8 million? Its hard to by flexible when you have to go in front of a union rep to ask an employee to pick something up. Clean something up. A friend of mine, a manager at a hotel asked the 'wrong' person to pick something up and got yelled at for asking him from the union rep. Great hospitality there. Wal-Mart, weren't the Clinton's board members there? What other company has 1.5 million workers? The US military? Ask them how quickly raises come. Standard union dues, 1000 employees equal a million union dollars! Taken away from the worker for what, two union reps at the facility. The rest goes for the unions political activity. Most of our poorly performing business’s problems have unions and union contracts getting in the way of adjusting the way they do business. Why is it that union membership has fallen to a low of roughly 8.8 million? Its hard to by flexible when you have to go in front of a union rep to ask an employee to pick something up. Clean something up. A friend of mine, a manager at a hotel asked the ‘wrong’ person to pick something up and got yelled at for asking him from the union rep. Great hospitality there.

Wal-Mart, weren’t the Clinton’s board members there? What other company has 1.5 million workers? The US military? Ask them how quickly raises come.

Standard union dues, 1000 employees equal a million union dollars! Taken away from the worker for what, two union reps at the facility. The rest goes for the unions political activity.

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