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Originally Posted by 2 Oldcrabs
I was a shop stewart and executive board member for an IBEW local for 32 years. Not once did I ever witness any violence toward another member or a member of management. I did witness management screwing the company by getting haircuts, shopping and playing golf on company time. They got bonuses for doing nothing special and got promoted when they screwed up. We had a tough time getting COLA raises. The Unions you are talking about have not existed since the early 70's. Senior Management are the ones "lining their pockets".  |
Take the time--and it will take some time--to read "The Five Families" by NY Times Crime Editor Selwynn Raab. It is a very long, very expansive & very detailed history of organized crime in the USA. When finished with the book one of the things that the reader will find out that US labor unions are very little more than subsidiary businesses of the mafia which includes time right up to the present. It will very clearly retire the notion that union thuggery & dishonesty stopped in the 70's as you suggest. If someone is a union kool-aid drinker, Raab's facts are not going to sway them, but for those who do not partake of the kool-aid, then it is a very shocking, very eye-opening book.