On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:24:34 -0800 (PST), Millwright Ron
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On Feb 12, 3:21*pm, "azotic" wrote:
"Millwright Ron" wrote in message

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On Feb 12, 11:24 am, "Tom Gardner"
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"azotic" wrote in message

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"Hawke" wrote in message
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Unions make companies cough up a share of the profits for
the workers and that comes out of the pockets of shareholders and
management.

If workers want to share in the profits they can simply become
shareholders
themselves.

Best Regards
Tom.

Drum roll please!

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Here is your Drum Roll

"We are living in the most selfish generation in the history of this
country," *"Their agenda is a race to the bottom line of cheap wages,
a race to the bottom of retirement and health care and education."

"How can you as a CEO take a huge bonus and then five months later
watch your pensions fall apart?" he asked. "What has to be inside such
a person?"

GREED

Ton knows Best
Millwright Ron

Your right all those greedy workers that have 401K's and self directed IRA's
are demanding higher profits.
Wanna bet some of those greedy *******s are union members ?

Best Regards
Tom.
Proud to be a CEO union member.- Hide quoted text -

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Toxic People:

We have met them in the hallways of our workplaces -- the "toxic"
people, poisoning the work environment with their anger or cynicism or
excessive criticism of others.

You can identify them since they act as if the only agenda that
matters is their own personal agenda, and the only time that counts is
theirs. We know them by their rudeness in meetings, or their inability
to find the good in any ideas other than their own, or their laser-
like ability to find fault without seeming to ever give credit.

The world revolves around them and they are unwilling to really
examine the impact of their behavior on others. These people are
"toxic" in that their impact on those around them, especially when in
critical positions of responsibility, is that they poison trust,
trample good will, destroy self-esteem and rot the fabric of
teamwork.

They cost industry and government billions of dollars in lost
opportunities, re-work, extra sick leave and errors they engender due
to the problems in communication, lowered collaboration, mistrust,
frustration and fear in their wake.

What gives? Can't they and the powers that be see the effects of their
toxicity? Why are they tolerated, and how in the heck did they get to
be where they are today?

The answer is that if you were a star producer, or very bright and
capable, working hard and getting results then you were often promoted
in spite of the way you treated other people or damaged working
relationships around you.

After all, we traditionally have measured how long you worked and what
you were able to accomplish with little attention on how you helped or
hurt the working relationships, trust and collaborative networks
around you.

This was poor management and even poorer leadership. In the words of
Jack Welch, the recently retired CEO of GE, "We must insist on people
keeping their commitments (getting results) as well as those who
demonstrate the values (valuing relationship development.)"

He further stated that those who only got the results but damaged
relationships consistently were like a cancer in an organization.

Yet, the days of the toxic individual are numbered. There is
increasingly less tolerance for their fits of temper or constant
criticism or inflated self-importance or disrespectful behavior.

The reasons are two fold. First, as all of us have noticed, the world
is changing dramatically. The global marketplace is more dynamic,
demanding and less tolerant of mistakes and those who are slow to
assimilate lessons or to adapt to changing conditions and customer
demands.

Millwright Ron
www.unionmillwright.com



So whats the MDS on Unions?


"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner