It’s been a roller coaster of emotions not gonna lie lol. My company is shutting down operations at the end of the year so I have to find new employment. Probably going to leave the beer industry and try to join a union or something idk yet. I am forklift certified and in beer I work with pipes, chemicals and water all the time so I might look into plumbing or waste water. I don’t want to bar tend again but I can do that for a bit while I find something permanent.
Then yesterday we found out that my wife is pregnant. I am so excited and kinda scared all at once. Yesterday I was just on edge all day. Only way I can describe it is the final moments right before kickoff in football or the whistle blowing to start a wrestling match. I wrestled in high school and college and played football in high school. If you have done competitive sports you know what I am talking about. That feeling but all day.
Hit the gym and then killed the last beers in my fridge. Gonna go out with the guys at work one last time in December but other than that I am gonna be sober during my wife’s pregnancy.
Also since the Charlie Kirk assassination the fog of war has been very dense and sometimes I don’t know what to believe.
So it’s probably best if I step back anyways unless something huge happens.
I will be making a post for vaccine information in a couple of months cause my wife is not red pilled on it and that’s the thing that terrifies me the most. I don’t want that poison or any of these freak big pharma doctors and nurses near my child.
God bless and Christ is King.
This might look like a good idea, but it destroys good companies. If you're not happy with what the company is offering you, just move to a different employer. "Collective bargaining" as it is called is just a shake down. Imagine if I didn't like what a restaurant was serving, so I got all the customers to stop coming until they changed their menu. That would be absurd, but that is what is happening when jobs unionize. If a job is bad enough, they will have trouble finding workers. Unions destroy the free market. If a company is making record profits, that is none of your concern. That isn't your money. Your money is the amount you agreed to when you started the job. I think part of the great awakening will be making unions completely illegal, and jailing union organizers. Only then can we have true free market capitalism. I can't believe how much love for unions there is around here, as if it isn't the very definition of socialism.
Sorry. Dont agree. Thanks for your reply.
Just an observation; both sides think the other is brainwashed.
I think i responded to the wrong person. It wasn't meant for you man.
I generally agree the vast majority of unions are a terrible thing & that it encourages despots to grab power at the top at some point, may e not initially, but it does at some point.
That said, there have been times historically where the unions were the only way to get business owners to ethically fulfill contracts. IIRC (it was a Glenn Beck episode that gave the history lesson) it was Rockefeller that fired employees months before they would obtain the house they were contractually given for working on the railroad. Fired simply so they didn't ge the house. Unions formed to force him to maintain those contracts IIRC.
Unfortunately, as with all centralized power, over time evil individuals get into those positions & then we get things like union dues paying for things that workers would never accept individually.
Ultimately I houve found Unions always end up destroying companies & organizations, though it seems often historically they did have a reason to be started due to some business owners who didn't want to fulfill their side of a contract. I don't know how how often that happens in the world today, but the mindset is still assumed to be there by pro union types from my experience.
Unions were never needed. Consumers can simply choose to work with other companies who treat their employees better. If that isn't happening, then the free market has determined that what those workers want are luxuries, not necessities. Instead of forming a union, these workers could have just decided to build their own railroads instead.
You will always find reasons for socialism, but at its heart, it is greed. If companies are making billions of dollars, that is none of the worker's concern. Unions are just a shake down to take what the company has produced. Workers agree to a pay rate and benefit, and if they don't like it, they can just quit.
I've yet to hear an example of a good company being destroyed by a Union, but otherwise I agree. By the time a Union appears, it's already gone south. It's how people argue for spoils at the bottom turn of the production cycle. There are no unions in financial services or anything AI.
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I would love to learn that history. I will need to dig, any chance you have additional information on why you believe this?
Saw some SEIU thugs protesting a position at a company once.
Funny thing was, I knew every single person in that position in the company that was at the location they were protesting, and you’ve never seen anyone in that position treated so well.
I’m not sure what got them to show up there. Highly doubt it was the company’s crew requesting it. Was just very weird, and very offensive. VERY. Either someone from that crew called them in spite of the great treatment (doubtful, but gross if true), or they were trying to agitate resentment (evil), or they were trying to create a scene to get more presence in the area - like a marketing campaign (probably most likely, still gross). Maybe some other reason just as shifty or moreso.
Evil bastards.
We meet again my free market fren.
That won’t be necessary if we get rid of the state agency and regulations that give special privileges to unions. The National Labor Relations Board forces by law companies to negotiate with only the politically connected union. Without that immoral law, collective bargaining would just be a temporarily inconvenient negotiating gimmick. If all the employees wanted to walk out or go on strike, and if the company wasn’t forced by the state to comply with those employees’ demands, then the company would just be inconvenienced by the length of time to recruit replacement employees. If the company can’t entice replacement employees, then maybe the original employees had a good point and the company should compromise with them.
Clearly, collective bargaining benefits under-performers and gets high achievers lumped in with the mediocre. If not for the NLRB forcing the company to make a deal with the union, high achievers would avoid the union to avoid being dragged down.
I saw an American union get a 150-person office closed down by the corporate board in Singapore out of frustration.