I SAY GET THE FAT RATS OUT OF THIER OFFICES AND MAKE THEM PICKET FOR IMMIGRANTS WHO DONT BELONG HERE.... THIS ASSHOLE UP THERE CANT SPEAK OR READ ENGLISH GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE
Protesting is for suckers! Thats why the subversives taught it to the baby boomers in the 60's.Theres rent a mobs these days.You can hire protesters and the police hire mercenaries"outsourcing"security.These are usually the "black flag"<~Anarchist throwing stuff through a Starbucks window at free speech zone "protests",or setting the police car on fire.Then the "security "has an excuse to beat the innocent (zombie)protesters with their "The King Is Unfair"signs! =-) It's all very scientific!
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Labor unions are a crap socialist concept. RIGHT TO WORK is how real American's do it!!!! America was built on capitalism, not a bunch of soulless thugs out socializing our skilled trades. BS
@kjfaris615 I'm bored so I'm going to educate a moron like you. Long ago was the industrial revolution. This was a time where there were no unions, wonderful! Bet you would want to live back then! I wish you did, because back in those days workers had no representation. The heads of companies wanted to make lotsa money so they could buy caviar. In order to do this they hired workers and paid them just enough not to starve and made them work in deadly conditions.
@kjfaris615 Then some dirty socialists got together and decided that workers should get paid a decent wage and not die in the work place. These people were called unions. They got together and said if their employers didn't want to pay them a decent wage and keep them safe, they were not going to work. Then the employers realized they couldn't underpay and kill their workers in the name of profit anymore. So they paid them a decent wage and made the workplace safe. Damn those socialist bastards!
@nignog9097 Little more history to it than that. Like how employers and union workers would take turns beating the hell out of each other and how larger unions like the teamsters showed their true colors as lazy corrupt mobsters. Or how teachers unions never miss an opportunity to block educational reforms even if studies show that students benefit from them. Unions have a time and a place and there are very few places in the modern age where they are required.
@Wilsontheterrible That's a fairly intelligent argument, some unions were indeed criminal, and they can at times make things inefficient (I have my own issues with the teacher's unions), but by your own admission they have their place. Politicians serve the interest of those capable of buying them (er I mean contributing to their campaigns). Workers need to organize in order to pool their resources and influence a system that is stacked against them. Its not perfect though, I'll give you that.
I bet they'd have been much more willing to talk to you if you were handing out water. It's cheap, it gets you their trust, and they'd be coming to you, instead of you approaching them as a total stranger with nothing but questions. Just an idea, but otherwise, nice work.
This is so true. I worked for a Union. All I got was a lower paycheck. When they laid me off, the denied me all benefits guaranteed in our Union Contract. I was also denied Union Representation to prevent me from filing a grievance. That is the day I stopped believing in Unions.
Now we know why liberals make baseless assumptions like when they claimed tea party rallies were really a bunch of corporate shills hired to show up. It's because they do this themselves! Their hypocrisy is not the issue. It's simply a window into their lies and corruption.
Back in the days when workers were getting their limbs cut off by dangerous machinery, a union to protect the interests of the employees made sense. But when a public employee union is pushing for a raise from $80,000 a year in wages/benefits to $85,000/year while the deficit is exploding and taxpayers are reeling...it's just not justified. Unions, particularly public employee unions, need to pick their battles more carefully.
This is hilarious and oh so typical. They can't find actual union members who care enough about the cause to protest. So they just hire a bunch of bums to stand around and shout at passing cars.
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there are unions in Europe that work perfectly fine, some even elect a ceo to run the company. So that creates a positive incentive for executives to treat workers with dignity and respect.
unions have been demonized by fringe right wing ideology here in the US. unions = bad for big business. no unions = more money for big business. these are facts. The plan the right wing has for America is, every industry be modeled after the walmart model. min wage, no security, no benefits for maximum profits and min overhead.
What hypocrisy, the unions hire scabs to protest on behalf of union-workers. It's beyond ludicrous, it's totally absurd. Liberals once again show they have no true ideals.
Those people picketing sound as desperate or ridiculous as the folks who go around trying to get people to sign a petition for a certain voter initiative but don't really care about the cause behind it and are just doing it for the money or a quota. I remember a few years ago at Mizzou we had a TON of random petitioners around campus. It was weird.
@whoo689 If the union cares so much about the people getting unionized, WHY AREN'T THEY THEMSELVES PICKETING???? That's the real question.
And furthermore, why are unions in this country exempt from antitrust laws? I mean, WTF. Why does every industry usually have only ONE union representing workers? How about a little fucking COMPETITION? Then maybe the unions will have an incentive to provide the highest quality possible to members.
@whoo689 I mean, why is it fair for workers in a certain industry to either choose between no union or one union they may not like? Why not give them a CHOICE between at least 2? That makes sense to me. More choices is almost always better. Hell, we should let someone form another union SEPARATE from the original in a workplace. Surely a big firm with lots of resources can handle it and do all the record-keeping and whatnot regarding that.
Funny how most of you who have learned this "free market" bull-sh!t have learned it all from UNIONIZED (tenure) professors who work for government-funded schools. People like Walter Williams.
@ScottfromTexas What is your point?? That they'd NOT get a job from a prestigious university had those public universities not existed? I hate when people make such a dumbass point. THAT'S IRRELEVANT! These guys are just teaching and doing research at an institution. It doesn't matter if it's public or private. The fact that they accepted a job at a public institution that hired them doesn't make a diff. Universities pretty much run the same, more or less. Some just get gov't money.
@ScottfromTexas If a prestigious private institution offered those jobs, I'm sure the free-market guys would accept them just as easily. It's not like the gap between public and private college worker pay and compensation is INSANELY huge.
@ScottfromTexas Your point would be most relevant IF these guys had argued against ALL public universities, which I don't recall. Care to show me where they've ever argued this?
Anybody in construction knows the Carpenters union is the scabbiest in the world, $300.00 + a friends help and walla, your now a union Carpenter...... They have acted goofy so many times their irrelevant and a source of amusement to any real craftsman.
union thugs paying unemployed deserate people min wage with no benefits to walk a picket while the fat union tards making 80k with no college degree sit at home watching tv.
they evidently dont have a problem paying other people low wages....why would their employer not call them hypocrites and just fire them?
@xxxxxxpimptaddyone - likewise, why is a pro-globalization, pro-outsourcing organization (and who funds these nefarioius groups, eh? Soros and his ilk most likely) objecting to outsourcing? That cuts both ways.
dumbest people on the planet; they'll hold up signs and yell and make noise like they stand for something ... BUT THEY DON'T WANT TO TALK TO ANYONE!!! uh, hello! if you stand for something and want to get a message out, if you want to stand in public and make noise, tell people whathefuck you represent! "Dur hur, I have a cause!" "Really? What do you represent?" "Man, get out of my face, it's none of your business!"
It doesn't matter who protests, it's what they are protesting for. This video undermines the entire idea behind a union: Stand together to achieve a bigger goal against the big corporate giants.
I don't know how the american unions work, but here in Belgium they have made huge changes for the better of all our workers
It matters if they are being paid. Its false representation of whos actually protesting for their cause. Theres a difference between protesting for a cause, and protesting for the cash.
@csgforme True, however it isn't always easy to get attention to small stuff like this these days. If there aren't atleast a hundred people, nobody cares. Is it wrong for smaller groups to hire help to be heard?
I should also add that if the union employees don't want to take the time off work to be there and protest, then they must think conditions are acceptable.
Most likely, union leaders want more handouts, so they hire non-union protestors to support the leaders cause, not the employees cause.
I can't judge over this, because i don't know what the exact reason/motivation was, but I do know that people these days are very scared of being fired. So scared that they'll take stuff they really shouldn't
@StoogeWatcher - no they don't. They call interlopers who are hired when the union is on strike "scabs." BTW, I once had this naive anti-union mindset until I got a job. The management is already unionized. And the companies work in collusion - only they call it a cartel when they unionize. Until they stop doing that I am in favor of unions.
that way no matter how hard you work, and another guy is lazy, you both get the same pay rate, the same raises, and pay the same dues
that makes me happy that your hard work is rewarded with the same degree as your lazy co-worker and that no matter how much harder you try, you won't advance in life any faster than some other, probably equally as lazy as you, worker does
I don't know how it works in america, but over here in belgium people from different unions will sometimes come protest with the others to add force to their pleas
@TheAnarchanon Well, you have a point, to an extent. However, if a union wants a company to hire MORE union workers, why hire NON-UNION people to protest?? What, the union is too "busy" or "can't be bothered" to have its OWN people picket? Do they not even give a fuck? Do they just wanna stir shit up, and it's not really about better working conditions but just "bringing down the man"?
I don't know how unions in america work, but over here other union members from different unions will sometimes strike in support of other unions and even protest alongside them.
Hiring people with no job to do this is pretty low, although it does give them a good meal
@TheAnarchanon Interesting... It seems even in more liberal (in U.S. terms, that is) Western Europe, they have a more democratic and competitive system of labor representation. Who'da thunk! So much for a 'free market' in labor, oddly enough.
@whoo689 It is a lot different from American systems I think. The unions are a part of political parties (each major party has their own union:liberals, christians and socialists) and the members in each factory/office are elected by the staff to represent them in negotiations with the bosses and to defend them if need be.
The elected can not get fired unless they make a major fault on purpose or steal or something. I'm going to go read up on Americas unions, it sparked my interest
Rent a mob, they have this all over Los Angeles
AC2GO777 2 weeks ago
""what local is this, I dunno, chris what local is this???'' oh my god, god bless that ladys heart.
AntaresInScorpius 7 months ago
greatest video ever!!!
DowdyBeats 1 year ago
unions are crooked, but who isnt
fuck call me when someone shows integrity and i might find it newsworthy
KojachBaumherr 1 year ago
I SAY GET THE FAT RATS OUT OF THIER OFFICES AND MAKE THEM PICKET FOR IMMIGRANTS WHO DONT BELONG HERE.... THIS ASSHOLE UP THERE CANT SPEAK OR READ ENGLISH GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE
GETITMOVIN2010 1 year ago
I SAY GET THE FAT RATS OUT OF THIER OFFICES AND MAKE THEM PICKET FOR IMMIGRANTS WHO DONT BELONG HERE....
GETITMOVIN2010 1 year ago
Protesting is for suckers! Thats why the subversives taught it to the baby boomers in the 60's.Theres rent a mobs these days.You can hire protesters and the police hire mercenaries"outsourcing"security.These are usually the "black flag"<~Anarchist throwing stuff through a Starbucks window at free speech zone "protests",or setting the police car on fire.Then the "security "has an excuse to beat the innocent (zombie)protesters with their "The King Is Unfair"signs! =-) It's all very scientific!
TheVeryMuchSoShow 1 year ago
Funny as hell. Never mind how sleazy this tactic is; does anybody give a SHIT about picketing anymore?
rqbuchanan 1 year ago
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usrevolution2 1 year ago
Labor unions are a crap socialist concept. RIGHT TO WORK is how real American's do it!!!! America was built on capitalism, not a bunch of soulless thugs out socializing our skilled trades. BS
kjfaris615 1 year ago
@kjfaris615 I'm bored so I'm going to educate a moron like you. Long ago was the industrial revolution. This was a time where there were no unions, wonderful! Bet you would want to live back then! I wish you did, because back in those days workers had no representation. The heads of companies wanted to make lotsa money so they could buy caviar. In order to do this they hired workers and paid them just enough not to starve and made them work in deadly conditions.
nignog9097 1 year ago
@kjfaris615 Then some dirty socialists got together and decided that workers should get paid a decent wage and not die in the work place. These people were called unions. They got together and said if their employers didn't want to pay them a decent wage and keep them safe, they were not going to work. Then the employers realized they couldn't underpay and kill their workers in the name of profit anymore. So they paid them a decent wage and made the workplace safe. Damn those socialist bastards!
nignog9097 1 year ago
@nignog9097 Little more history to it than that. Like how employers and union workers would take turns beating the hell out of each other and how larger unions like the teamsters showed their true colors as lazy corrupt mobsters. Or how teachers unions never miss an opportunity to block educational reforms even if studies show that students benefit from them. Unions have a time and a place and there are very few places in the modern age where they are required.
Wilsontheterrible 1 year ago
@Wilsontheterrible That's a fairly intelligent argument, some unions were indeed criminal, and they can at times make things inefficient (I have my own issues with the teacher's unions), but by your own admission they have their place. Politicians serve the interest of those capable of buying them (er I mean contributing to their campaigns). Workers need to organize in order to pool their resources and influence a system that is stacked against them. Its not perfect though, I'll give you that.
nignog9097 1 year ago
You guys are going to have take your unhappy times out of my new city/state.
MrMickyMouth 1 year ago
Who is the dumb bitch who keeps saying, "Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy?"
achalmers 1 year ago 2
@achalmers Woman? I thought it was a monkey.
RussianMusicBD 1 year ago
Who's that in the background making that noise? Sounds like miniature semi-trailors (for toddlers) down-shifting on the freeway.
QuartuvLarry 1 year ago 2
They don't deliver to their own members, now?
Hell, I've known they deserve nothing less than total defiance! And now...so do their own members!
QuartuvLarry 1 year ago
I bet they'd have been much more willing to talk to you if you were handing out water. It's cheap, it gets you their trust, and they'd be coming to you, instead of you approaching them as a total stranger with nothing but questions. Just an idea, but otherwise, nice work.
donttrackmebro 1 year ago
This is so true. I worked for a Union. All I got was a lower paycheck. When they laid me off, the denied me all benefits guaranteed in our Union Contract. I was also denied Union Representation to prevent me from filing a grievance. That is the day I stopped believing in Unions.
AXESMI 1 year ago
Dude, at the end there when they were asking if you were hiring, you should have hired a few of them for an interview.
PhatPhing 1 year ago
What's this country coming to? Next thing you'll see the SEIU registering these "non-union" workers to vote for Obama.
MGR1900 1 year ago
Now we know why liberals make baseless assumptions like when they claimed tea party rallies were really a bunch of corporate shills hired to show up. It's because they do this themselves! Their hypocrisy is not the issue. It's simply a window into their lies and corruption.
ERK1138 1 year ago
wildchild/kim, you are still a big fucking whore.LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Markcuda 1 year ago
Why do they have to hire protesters at all? If an issue is important, don't people get out and protest on their own?
VIVIEN2005 1 year ago
@VIVIEN2005 Well this tells me that it is not an important issue, and they need to hire people to protest.
ShadowWolf514 1 year ago
Reminds me of the Kochs & their minions trucking in people for their "grass-roots" tea party events. Touche.
stevenscotthopkins 1 year ago
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I see, thanks for explaining
TheAnarchanon 1 year ago
Have the "union" no shame? Obviously not...
longbeachboy57 1 year ago
Back in the days when workers were getting their limbs cut off by dangerous machinery, a union to protect the interests of the employees made sense. But when a public employee union is pushing for a raise from $80,000 a year in wages/benefits to $85,000/year while the deficit is exploding and taxpayers are reeling...it's just not justified. Unions, particularly public employee unions, need to pick their battles more carefully.
TCoop6231 1 year ago
Typical UNION THUGocracy. This is how they will fill the Mall in DC on 10.02.10
Bunch of CROOKS, taking hard working union members dues (usually MANDATORY ) to waste to push marxist agenda to CONTROL ALL WORKERS.
MyChemMistress 1 year ago
Basically, just like al gore and all the left its ok if we do this , but not you.
jetrpg22 1 year ago 2
This is hilarious and oh so typical. They can't find actual union members who care enough about the cause to protest. So they just hire a bunch of bums to stand around and shout at passing cars.
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gramosjr7 1 year ago
there are unions in Europe that work perfectly fine, some even elect a ceo to run the company. So that creates a positive incentive for executives to treat workers with dignity and respect.
803brando 1 year ago
unions have been demonized by fringe right wing ideology here in the US. unions = bad for big business. no unions = more money for big business. these are facts. The plan the right wing has for America is, every industry be modeled after the walmart model. min wage, no security, no benefits for maximum profits and min overhead.
803brando 1 year ago
Union = Communism Lite run by the Mafia.
Fail.
November.
VerbotenDingleberry 1 year ago
Typical lying hypocrite liberals!
Nincumpoopie 1 year ago 2
What hypocrisy, the unions hire scabs to protest on behalf of union-workers. It's beyond ludicrous, it's totally absurd. Liberals once again show they have no true ideals.
DOHC2L 1 year ago 4
Unions = scum.
arkivx1 1 year ago
i wouldn't mind unions hiring NON-union people to do their protests if they would AT LEAST pay those people the prevailing Union Wage & Benefits
Zaxxon2008 1 year ago
isn't this the TRUE definition of "Astro-Turf" protesting?!?! LOL
and who is the annoying cow that keeps yelling like a firetruck siren??? good christ, pay her DOUBLE
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Zaxxon2008 1 year ago
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Unions may as well be the New America Mafia.
Rich711 1 year ago 2
Those people picketing sound as desperate or ridiculous as the folks who go around trying to get people to sign a petition for a certain voter initiative but don't really care about the cause behind it and are just doing it for the money or a quota. I remember a few years ago at Mizzou we had a TON of random petitioners around campus. It was weird.
whoo689 1 year ago
@whoo689 If the union cares so much about the people getting unionized, WHY AREN'T THEY THEMSELVES PICKETING???? That's the real question.
And furthermore, why are unions in this country exempt from antitrust laws? I mean, WTF. Why does every industry usually have only ONE union representing workers? How about a little fucking COMPETITION? Then maybe the unions will have an incentive to provide the highest quality possible to members.
I say unionize the unions ;)
whoo689 1 year ago 2
@whoo689 I mean, why is it fair for workers in a certain industry to either choose between no union or one union they may not like? Why not give them a CHOICE between at least 2? That makes sense to me. More choices is almost always better. Hell, we should let someone form another union SEPARATE from the original in a workplace. Surely a big firm with lots of resources can handle it and do all the record-keeping and whatnot regarding that.
whoo689 1 year ago
These unions are so pathetic sometimes. I mean, really? Hiring NON-UNION people rather than just sending your own union employees to protest?
whoo689 1 year ago
the lady who keeps screaming sounds like a wild animal
xxxxxxpimptaddyone 1 year ago
Funny how most of you who have learned this "free market" bull-sh!t have learned it all from UNIONIZED (tenure) professors who work for government-funded schools. People like Walter Williams.
ScottfromTexas 1 year ago
@ScottfromTexas LOL. Comparing tenure and unions. Nice... If that isn't dishonest, I dunno what is.
whoo689 1 year ago
@ScottfromTexas What is your point?? That they'd NOT get a job from a prestigious university had those public universities not existed? I hate when people make such a dumbass point. THAT'S IRRELEVANT! These guys are just teaching and doing research at an institution. It doesn't matter if it's public or private. The fact that they accepted a job at a public institution that hired them doesn't make a diff. Universities pretty much run the same, more or less. Some just get gov't money.
whoo689 1 year ago
@ScottfromTexas If a prestigious private institution offered those jobs, I'm sure the free-market guys would accept them just as easily. It's not like the gap between public and private college worker pay and compensation is INSANELY huge.
whoo689 1 year ago
@ScottfromTexas Your point would be most relevant IF these guys had argued against ALL public universities, which I don't recall. Care to show me where they've ever argued this?
whoo689 1 year ago
Anybody in construction knows the Carpenters union is the scabbiest in the world, $300.00 + a friends help and walla, your now a union Carpenter...... They have acted goofy so many times their irrelevant and a source of amusement to any real craftsman.
MrBobman1966 1 year ago
union thugs paying unemployed deserate people min wage with no benefits to walk a picket while the fat union tards making 80k with no college degree sit at home watching tv.
they evidently dont have a problem paying other people low wages....why would their employer not call them hypocrites and just fire them?
xxxxxxpimptaddyone 1 year ago 2
@xxxxxxpimptaddyone - likewise, why is a pro-globalization, pro-outsourcing organization (and who funds these nefarioius groups, eh? Soros and his ilk most likely) objecting to outsourcing? That cuts both ways.
ScottfromTexas 1 year ago
Lol that is just hilarious. The left really loves their rent-a-mobs!
MueX 1 year ago 17
It's not really a secret. You read about it in the newspapers all the time.
StoogeWatcher 1 year ago
Picketing is like the broken window fallacy they probably believe as a tenet of their union faith; just a bunch of moving around that does nothing.
hughtub 1 year ago 2
Unions are 1--% Corrupt and need to be removed from the Game NOW
cldump 1 year ago
Unions are 1--% Corrupt and bneed to be removed from the Game NOW
cldump 1 year ago
dumbest people on the planet; they'll hold up signs and yell and make noise like they stand for something ... BUT THEY DON'T WANT TO TALK TO ANYONE!!! uh, hello! if you stand for something and want to get a message out, if you want to stand in public and make noise, tell people whathefuck you represent! "Dur hur, I have a cause!" "Really? What do you represent?" "Man, get out of my face, it's none of your business!"
Spazzboy911 1 year ago
@Spazzboy911
LOL, I was thinking the same thing...
trekkerperson 1 year ago
It doesn't matter who protests, it's what they are protesting for. This video undermines the entire idea behind a union: Stand together to achieve a bigger goal against the big corporate giants.
I don't know how the american unions work, but here in Belgium they have made huge changes for the better of all our workers
TheAnarchanon 1 year ago
@TheAnarchanon
It matters if they are being paid. Its false representation of whos actually protesting for their cause. Theres a difference between protesting for a cause, and protesting for the cash.
csgforme 1 year ago
@csgforme True, however it isn't always easy to get attention to small stuff like this these days. If there aren't atleast a hundred people, nobody cares. Is it wrong for smaller groups to hire help to be heard?
TheAnarchanon 1 year ago
@TheAnarchanon
I should also add that if the union employees don't want to take the time off work to be there and protest, then they must think conditions are acceptable.
Most likely, union leaders want more handouts, so they hire non-union protestors to support the leaders cause, not the employees cause.
csgforme 1 year ago
@csgforme
I can't judge over this, because i don't know what the exact reason/motivation was, but I do know that people these days are very scared of being fired. So scared that they'll take stuff they really shouldn't
TheAnarchanon 1 year ago
@TheAnarchanon It does. People call non-union workers scabs, yet those same people have no problem hiring non-union people to hold signs.
StoogeWatcher 1 year ago 2
@StoogeWatcher - no they don't. They call interlopers who are hired when the union is on strike "scabs." BTW, I once had this naive anti-union mindset until I got a job. The management is already unionized. And the companies work in collusion - only they call it a cartel when they unionize. Until they stop doing that I am in favor of unions.
ScottfromTexas 1 year ago
@ScottfromTexas i am happy for you that you are in a union
that way no matter how hard you work, and another guy is lazy, you both get the same pay rate, the same raises, and pay the same dues
that makes me happy that your hard work is rewarded with the same degree as your lazy co-worker and that no matter how much harder you try, you won't advance in life any faster than some other, probably equally as lazy as you, worker does
Zaxxon2008 1 year ago 3
@Zaxxon2008 - I'm not in a union.
"that way no matter how hard you work, and another guy is lazy, you both get the same pay rate,"
Not all unions are that way - actually I don't know if any of them are.
ScottfromTexas 1 year ago
@ScottfromTexas yeah i think you were quoting someone else that you were replying to, but didnt use quotations... i noticed that after i posted
and yeah, they all are that way
Zaxxon2008 1 year ago
@StoogeWatcher
I don't know how it works in america, but over here in belgium people from different unions will sometimes come protest with the others to add force to their pleas
TheAnarchanon 1 year ago
@TheAnarchanon Well, you have a point, to an extent. However, if a union wants a company to hire MORE union workers, why hire NON-UNION people to protest?? What, the union is too "busy" or "can't be bothered" to have its OWN people picket? Do they not even give a fuck? Do they just wanna stir shit up, and it's not really about better working conditions but just "bringing down the man"?
I mean honestly.
whoo689 1 year ago
@whoo689
I don't know how unions in america work, but over here other union members from different unions will sometimes strike in support of other unions and even protest alongside them.
Hiring people with no job to do this is pretty low, although it does give them a good meal
TheAnarchanon 1 year ago
@TheAnarchanon Interesting... It seems even in more liberal (in U.S. terms, that is) Western Europe, they have a more democratic and competitive system of labor representation. Who'da thunk! So much for a 'free market' in labor, oddly enough.
whoo689 1 year ago
@whoo689 It is a lot different from American systems I think. The unions are a part of political parties (each major party has their own union:liberals, christians and socialists) and the members in each factory/office are elected by the staff to represent them in negotiations with the bosses and to defend them if need be.
The elected can not get fired unless they make a major fault on purpose or steal or something. I'm going to go read up on Americas unions, it sparked my interest
TheAnarchanon 1 year ago
LMFAO "You aint got no money!" says the guy waiting in line to get minimum wage check.
DimitriNakos 1 year ago
Someone should try to unionize the protesters. :-)
steam0001 1 year ago
The picket walkers all belong to "Scabs For Grunt Justice"
Armigerous 1 year ago
One of my favorite WSJ headlines was
"Unions hire non-union workers to protest the hiring of non-union workers."
sdfkjllshadflhadfshl 1 year ago 18