"Tom Gardner" wrote in message
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I'm in union negotiations right now. They want me to have no right to
even ASK for a drug test even if somebody is fall-down drunk. Union
ASSHOLES are destroying what is left!

Tom, best wishes with your negotiations.

Back 30 years ago I bought a company that had a handful of union employees
(and a handful of non-union employees). We were paying skilled leaders
about $27 per hour and unskilled labor was $21 per hour (yea, high,
SanFrancisco Bay Area wages). On top of the above I would send the union $
13 per hour per worker for benefits. High, especially for the $21 wage
earner. Not knowing any better, on paydays I would give them a receipt
explaining all the deductions for FICA, taxes etc. I also added a column
stating that on their behalf we sent $ ### to the union for their benefits
package. WRONG!!! They filed an NLRB action against me. It was illegal to
remind the workers that the employer is actually paying for all of those
benefits! It's called harassment.

Long story short, I got the best labor lawyers in the area and after 6
months of negotiations (the contract was up at this time) we were
successfully able to pull out of the union. We were able to prove that
because of industry-wide contract (wage) agreements, the union was not
negotiating in good faith.

Ivan Vegvary

BTW, those union members would go around bragging what great benefits were
provided for them by the union! No clue as to who pays for same.