Subj : Rampant Stupidificati
To   : Ron L.
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Thu Mar 27 2025 17:10:26

Hey Ron!

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 07:18:30 -0400, you wrote:

 AT>> Right. If you don't like it, then call your union rep so that
 AT>> he/she/they can take $1000 of your money and spend it on a protest
 AT>> ;)

 RL> Yup.  It's a big scam.  Unions only protect bad workers.  Good workers
 RL> don't need Union "protection".

To be fair, you're probably correct. Good workers don't need their union's protection. They stay working all year around, and are never laid off.. so they can enjoy the large bump in pay, benefits, and safety procedures over non-union contractors.

The difference between good and bad workers, is that bad workers are laid off all the time. The only union "protection" they have is when laid off they can put their name on the "list" at the hall, so when a contractor calls for "bodies" (which is usually just to man up a big job), if their next on the list they get sent out - usually soon to be laid off again, well, because they're bad. ;)

While the pay may be the same for any journeyman of said trade, one works and the other doesn't. Once the bad worker finally realizes that they don't work enough to make ends meet, they usually withdraw from the union and go work somewhere else (oddly enough, usually non-union). 

This is how it works in construction, anyways. YMMV.

Regards,
Nick

.... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal.
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