If it was not for those pesky unions US/East would have been out of business several years ago.
I guess you forget the $2.4 billion the employees gave in the two years from the first bankruptcy and the billions given back under the lastest bankruptcy.
And remember the company signed all of the previous CBAs and no one held a gun to their head.
What about the 4 1/2 years from 1995 till 1999 that the Mechanic and Related employees did not get any raises other then pay progression during contract negotiations as the company was stalling?
Those of us who were topped out recieved no raises during that time period.
700
I now work for GE with NO unions, and in fact receive BETTER benefits and wages BY FAR for NOT having union representation. We also don't have silly rules that can't be bent or broken because of unions.
Face it 700, unions are now a liability and no longer an asset for the working man. The few places left with unions are targets for eventual elimination because they can't complete with union promoting inefficiencies inherent in the union structures with antiquated work rules.
I am NOT slamming unions here, I am simply stating FACTS as I live them.
Just last week another 620 UNION members in the Pittsburgh area here will be axed by 2007 as GM tries to right itself. So those jobs along with thousand and thousands since the 70's are gone in the Pittsburgh region alone, and what stopped it, union representation? It's obvious unions are no help stopping all the jobs cuts past and future, so why oh why would one even want to pay unions dues when their track record is extremely dismal, most rational individuals don't.
Your constant pasting of "facts" and why unions are needed and the IAM is needed more in particular is almost pathetic. I again am NOT slamming you, just stating reality in today’s world where unions have done absolutely nothing whatsoever to stop all the job losses, pay and benefits cuts.
I heard Jake S a union bigwig on the radio a few months back making a fool of himself trying to explain why unions are needed and when asked and pointed to the same things I am saying here he simply acted flabbergasted and hung up on the talk show host. Like all unions, they hung up on the membership years ago so why would a reasonable rational thinking working person even want to consider union representation these days!
Fact 700, these are nothing but FACTS, just not the kind you want to accept.
