BF2S Forums Question For Americans... What Do You Think Of Unions?

Power needs to be checked. This could be a person managing the local union (they are elected) .. or a corporate fat cat whose whole point of existence is to cut corners. If you are relying on the good will of corporate America.. or even more laughable bureaucratic legislation then you are either blind or kidding yourself. There are laws in place for certain safety issues, but even today people often let things go for fear of retribution. If you've ever held a management position in a big company then you know there is no such thing as anonymous.

Those that force workers to unionize in order to gain employment are generally frowned upon (Teamsters/UAW/etc are examples of this).

Teamsters do not force you to join. That is up to the state.  In fact most workers don't even know if you have joined or not. When I was a supervisor I would discipline employees and the union stewards would sit in even though the person getting written up wasn't even a union member. It was kinda funny tbh.

Unions are like excesive taint hair on a humid day.


Unnecessary, full of shit and surrounded by dicks and assholes.

imortal wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

Must be why UPS has over a quarter million employees. Employees that have better benefits and better pay than their competitors.. while remain very profitable.

Yes, UPS pays better, but FedEx has air conditioning in their trucks.  Here in Texas, it becomes a toss-up.

FedEx drivers have to maintain their own trucks, pay for their routes, and put there own fuel in there vehicles. It's no toss up at all. I got along with the Fedex driver on my route. He told me that if he could get in at top pay he'd jump companies in an instant.

I used to tell drivers to drive around in circles with the doors open .. voila, AC.

Btw there is a great film from the writer of Taxi Driver about corrupt unions starring Harvey Keitel and Richard Pryor called Blue Collar which I would highly recommend to any film buffs out there.