The problem with Kasich is he is actually addressing the problem and taking smart steps to fix it. Union employees bitching about not getting their mandatory raise AND their performance raise while having to contribute to their own health care.

Boo fucking hoo. It’s called the real world, where people have gone 2+ years without a raise just to keep their jobs and health care is a luxury. Buy a fucking clue.

Are you really this big an @sshat? Seriously? I have been screwed over by my employers repeatedly. My employers in general give less of a damn about me than the sh!t they take every morning. If only I had a union trying to protect my interests. If only……

Boo fucking hoo. It’s called the real world, where people have gone 2+ years without a raise just to keep their jobs and health care is a luxury. Buy a fucking clue.

/roger must live in oz
//oz constitutes not the real world, obviously

THIS.

The PERFECT statement and a PERFECT avatar.

/smacks gum

I see. Are you hiring?

Do the entry level workers get this same treatment?

they probably have to EARN that type of treatment..crazy concept I know

Do the entry level workers get this same treatment?

They get one less week vacation (bumped after the first year) & no gym membership (after the fourth year). Everything else the same.

FUCK UNIONS

(Said not to “brag” but to show that markets have a way of working themselves out. Companies pay for value).

/Goes to Starbucks to fill out application…

That being said, I sure as shit do NOT trust a big company to do the right thing when it comes to paying/treating its employees fairly.

Just curious, which “big companies” have you worked at that have made you feel this way?

I work at a Fortune 200 company: five weeks vacation, market-value pay (oh the humanity), full health benefits, 8% company 401-k contribution, free gym membership, 20% off Verizon cell phone bill, etc.

No union. That seems like the “right thing” to me.

(Said not to “brag” but to show that markets have a way of working themselves out. Companies pay for value).

By the way mrejr, the Astros and Cubs look like they are racing each other to the bottom. It’s 50-50 at this point that I’m wearing a Cubs gravatar this fall or next spring.

oh im aware…..it’s like the cubs know i have bet going on and they decided to be extra shitty because of it. memo to self : quit making sports bets

I get and support unions when they function the way they are supposed to but when they start with their bullshit I find them to be corrupt and more harmful the helpful.

this is true. The decline of the NYC docks took place because of the corruption.

/union bumper sticker ideas

See, mrejr has a point, even though I’m still supportive of unions. At the TV station I work at, there’s a couple photographers and editors who can basically do as little as possible and still get handsomely paid for it with no real reprecussions.

That being said, I sure as shit do NOT trust a big company to do the right thing when it comes to paying/treating its employees fairly.

/Where do we go from here?’d

Touché.

The point is that in the union/anti-union argument, there is a tendency to paint unions–either way–with a broad brush. Some unions have certainly outlived their usefulness, but others I would argue are more necessary than ever.