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Is the internet, not formal education, the new great equalizer?
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. – Horace Mann
Related Talks:Why Unions are BadUpdated on May 4, 2009People who have never had the “pleasure” of working for a unionized
company probably don’t know much about them. Well I have had the
pleasure of working for two union based companies, Kroger and UPS.
Thank God I worked for them while I was young so that I would never do
it again. Now I was young and na?ve when I worked for King Soopers so
I’m going to talk about my experience at UPS. I started UPS in April of
2007 and got a job as a loader. My job consisted of packages coming
down a belt that the sorters would push down the appropriate chutes.
Now… this was definitely some physically demanding work. You had to
read the packages to make sure that they were in the correct trailer
then build a wall with a small backfill for the smaller packages. Now I
worked my ass off the entire time I was at that job and my supervisor
knew it. I was paid, initially, $8.50 per hour and got a 50 cent after
a month then a dollar more after a year. I was on a one month
probationary period before I was FORCED to join the union. Then I had
to pay $50 per week up to $350 which was automatically deducted from my
pay check as my “initiation fee.” Keep in mind I worked about 4-5 hours
per day Monday through Friday as a part time job while I was going to
school so my paychecks were about $120 to $160. Now, because I was
working so hard and could handle more work, I would get the most
difficult trailers. By difficult I mean difficult I was running trailer
to trailer stacking packages as fast and sturdy as possible.
you’d think since you are working harder and more efficiently than the
other employees you’d get paid more right? Wrong. Quite a few people,
but one in particular, would be lazy about their work and get the easy
trailers because of it. In any other job, they wouldn’t get any hours
or they’d be fired, but thanks to the good old union, that’s
impossible. UPS can’t fire an employee based on work ethic. They can
only be fired if they screw up royally… at least 3 times, and even then
it’s a huge hassle to get rid of them because the union is “legal
representation” so they won’t let them get fired. The Teamsters Union
screwed over me “the genuinely hard worker” and UPS. No matter how hard
I worked, there wasn’t a chance of me getting a promotion or raise over
anyone else because it’s all based on seniority, not work ethic. Now
where’s the incentive in that? I paid $20 per month for union dues
which is just BS in my opinion because I didn’t need the union to
protect me from anything. As long as you’re a hard worker, UPS isn’t
going to fire you over nothing. Now little to my knowledge about those
“union dues” was that a portion of it was going to Hilary Clinton for
President. They were lobbying for her and not that it’s a huge amount
but $2.00 out of the union dues were going to her every month… My hard
earned money. Back during World War 1 and 2, Unions had a purpose. We
now have laws about how many hours you can work and stuff like that.
Unions aren’t needed anymore. They protect the lazy worker and prevent
the hard worker from moving up and getting what they deserve. I’m sick
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