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Originally Posted by Shimpy
An article in todays paper gave a good explaination. Hostess makes Twinkies and Wonder Bread. The union forbid both products, although coming from the same plant, be shipped in the same truck, thus adding additional drivers and trucks. Not only that, workers that loaded twinkies into a truck could not load Wonder Bread and visa versa, adding more union employees. All this added to expenses for the products. An example of unions putting a company out of business as I personally observed at Eastern Air Lines and Pan Am.
My problem is trying to justify if I own a company and want to give people jobs, how can they have the nerve to tell me how much I can pay and what benefits I will provide if I'm within the law? If they don't like it nobody is forcing them to work there. As far as safe working conditions, OSHA is covering that, usually to the extreme. Just my opinion.
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How many years did you work for Eastern Air Lines or Pan Am? I worked there for 25 years, and that's not the way I remember it at all. Frank Lorenzo canabalized EAL, turning all the assets over to his other airline, Continental. He was banned from working in the airline industry ever again, but alas that was too late for Eastern, the damage had been done.