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Schulz2.0

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  1. My nutty-ass, MAGA cult cousin posted an Alex Jones video the other day as proof that the government is controlling hurricanes. Dumbest fucking people.
  2. I recognize that mouth...
  3. I'm USW. I can't speak for other unions, but where I'm at I'd say less than 5% are flat out lazy or incompetent. With any system you're going to have people that take advantage of the system.
  4. You're doing a great job of proving why we need unions.
  5. I don't get why Ange took so long to make a sub and then only do 2.
  6. They basically asked for their wages to match what the west coast workers are making. How exactly is that greedy bullshit?
  7. Yes. When times are good they make plenty of money regardless of how incompetent the company is.
  8. Most people can't afford to strike for more than a week or two. I know plenty of people at my work who make $150-200k and basically live paycheck to paycheck. A loaded truck, a boat, and a 4 wheeler payments don't pay themselves.
  9. The company I work for made $10 billion in profit, not revenue, in 2022. They then did several rounds of layoffs in 2023 to "trim the fat" on the salaried, non union, side.
  10. I would expect them to push for permanent positions. Even if you're automated, you still need people to monitor the process. You need people to troubleshoot issues. You need people to perform routine maintenance and repairs. I would ask if anyone really believes any savings in labor costs and efficiency would actually be passed on to the consumer? Every publicly traded company I've worked for is laughing in dividends.
  11. I would assume that part of the negotiations would be that, in exchange for allowing some level of automation, the union would make the company agree to the creation of a certain number of union jobs that maintain the automation equipment (or something to that effect).
  12. Her kids were all conceived via IVF.
  13. A CBA negotiation means if you're going to give something up, even something reasonable, you're going to push for some sort of a concession in turn. My union has pushed for increased staffing in my department because our work load and amount of equipment we work on and monitor has quadrupled in the past 5 years. The company doesn't want to do it because it costs money. If they do agree to add the staffing, they'll be expecting a concession on our end. It's just how this shit works.
  14. You're surprised a union that represents union workers would oppose measures that would reduce the amount of union jobs needed?
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