NinerBikes wrote:
Nope, don't have to prove anything, you can assume all you want. I'd be all for drug testing of employees, random samples pulled.
Drugs and alcohol have no place in my workplace, not in construction, not around tools that cut, maim or can bleed you out in under a minute if you cut a femoral artery, or working with nail guns, and you pin your foot to sheathing on a roof nailing it off. Seen it happen, far too many times. Or missing thumbs in a cabinet mill shop. Dumb and dumber. If you are drinking at work, on the clock, you don't take your job seriously enough.
The difference between you and me is I was an employer, you're an employee. I created jobs... for employees that wanted to work, not goof off, party, drink or get loaded on the job, on company time, on MY time, that I bought, that I pay you for, to be productive.
A union job, in my experience, is for a slacker, for too much pay and benefits for the yield they produce. I should also add I was a Cost Accountant /Financial Analyst for a fortune 50 aerospace defense company at one point, early in my career. I was keeping tabs on productivity, by time card, by employee, by job/work order/sales order. Union employees breed a pathetic type of work ethic, in my observations, over the years.
It's no surprise why GM needed bailing out. Or Chrysler, back in 1979... the theme is familar... Union wages too high. Always a poor Democratic president, doing what he needs to do to get union votes to save union jobs. More taxes, redistribution of wealth. And it consistently fails. Those are my observations, with my own two eyes. It's no surprise US car companies are not something I'd buy, let alone lease. Having to import an Italian diesel motor for a US assembled full size pick up truck is just plain wrong. I am sure Cummins could whack a couple cylinders off and make an inline 4.0, heck, whack 3 off and run as an inline 3 cylinder 3.0, for a half ton PU. It would pull like a mule. Might sound a little funny at idle, but it would get the job done.
Union failure.
Man Dude you just don't get it. Chrysler, GM and Ford UNION wages make up 12% of the vehicle costs. But Upper Management wage and benefits make up 8%+ for less then 5% of the work force! So spue your anti union BS all you want most intelligent people know better.
Just a heads up, in 2007 the top thirteen managers made more then the TOTAL union work force, so tell me how my meger wages (as they have been called by a few on here) are the problem?
Don
