cacman
13 years ago
Wonder if the same situation is occurring with the kids that bag groceries??? They have their own union too!!!
ZRX1200
13 years ago
No fuel!


I need a union car that doesn't run on fuel!



AMAZING!!!!!
tailgater
13 years ago

No, they don't have to be IBEW to be qualified, but verifying that the utility workers had some training, and minimum licensees to conduct work on public power distribution lines is a good idea, it's not about hammer sizes on high voltage lines.

RWhisenand wrote:



Nobody would fault the municipality if they merely checked credentials.
This was clearly a case of the union treating the outsiders with their business-as-usual approach, when the situation called for common sense.
As Z stated, nobody would drive a thousand miles just to make the unions look bad. They obviously arrived and were bullied rather than shown some well deserved gratitude.

I think it's obvious what transpired. But the powerful politics of the IBEW will likely change the facts so over time it appears like a non-issue.

But what shouldn't be forgotten, regardless of what the truth is, is that so many are ready to believe that the union responded poorly. Because that is what they do. And they do it with no appologies.
tailgater
13 years ago

It was a union made electric utility truck. No fuel.

sd72 wrote:



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DrMaddVibe
13 years ago

No fuel!


I need a union car that doesn't run on fuel!



AMAZING!!!!!

ZRX1200 wrote:




It runs of Hope and Change!!!!!![whip]
blackfoot11
13 years ago
yeah, but who BUILT that truck. it had to be the government............you know, cause of the bridges and roads thingy...............so the government can do with it what they will.....................

all in all, as a utility worker, (non union thankfully), this is a clusterfukc. (yes, i misspelled that), something had to happen, or it wouldn'ta made headlines...................

DrMaddVibe
13 years ago
If you were a union worker with a union job in a union shop, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this utopia so you could sleep on the job, play cards on overtime, go on strike for unrealistic raises and retirement that only congressmen, Senators and CEO's get that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got union job -- you didn’t build that. Marx, Trotsky and Lenin made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet, because let's face it if it were up to a union they'd still be trying to create the wheel!
blackfoot11
13 years ago

If you were a union worker with a union job in a union shop, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this utopia so you could sleep on the job, play cards on overtime, go on strike for unrealistic raises and retirement that only congressmen, Senators and CEO's get that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got union job -- you didn’t build that. Marx, Trotsky and Lenin made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet, because let's face it if it were up to a union they'd still be trying to create the wheel!

DrMaddVibe wrote:




sad but true.

here in wisconcin, the state union workers cost me EVEN more $ when they re-called the govenor, with the result being not what they hoped. because taxpayers have all along payed the ENTIRE medical insurance of union state employees, as well as there ENTIRE retirement funds. govenor walker was the 1st to have balls of steel and say, "that ain't happenin no more". all he asked for was for them to pay a mere 15%.

i'm so sick of paying for others retirement, AND my own, WITHOUT any help from the gubment.............


1 of our bros here works for a natural gas company here in sconnie. this is about how the utility he works for handles tasks. he was headed home 1 day when he overheard something needed to be done for a customer on his way home. he said he'd pick it up on his way home. NO was the answer. it's not your job. (a minor task he could've handled, but was of great importance to the customer).

the customer wound up waiting 2 more days for the service because it wasn't his job.

THAT'S union mentality.................
tailgater
13 years ago




the customer wound up waiting 2 more days for the service because it wasn't his job.

THAT'S union mentality.................

blackfoot11 wrote:



You obviously misunderstood.
The customer must have wanted it 2 days slower.

Gives them time to "affiliate"...


dpnewell
13 years ago

No, they don't have to be IBEW to be qualified, but verifying that the utility workers had some training, and minimum licensees to conduct work on public power distribution lines is a good idea, it's not about hammer sizes on high voltage lines.

RWhisenand wrote:



That's what you got out of my post - hammer sizes on high voltage lines. Congrates. Your "union think" brainwashing is complete. BTW, didn't you say in a previous post that it was the non-union worker's fault for failing to "affiliate"? Oh, that's right, you did.


If workers refused to affiliate, it's on them not the IBEW.

RWhisenand wrote:

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