On 12/04/2016 03:14 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:

Check out how the Russians wire a junction box. ?(???)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlbVLb--_uk



The waqy the Ruskies do it is the way we'de be doing it if the unions
had their way ----


If the unions had their way, it would take several people. After the
wires are in, one to strip the wires, one to twist them, one to place
the connector, one to work the crimping tool, one to do the insulation.

Even with all of them, I probably left out a couple of men.

Unions are not all bad, but there needs to be a ballance between them
and the management.

A few decades ago in the UK I read a letter in the newspaper from
someone who had bought a new gas range from the gas company:

Two men delivered the new range and went away.

Two men came and disconnected the old range and went away.

Two men came and took out the old range and went away with it.

Two men came and connected the new range and went away without turning
the gas on.

Two men came and inspected the installation and turned the gas on.

I have no idea whether or not that was due to union rules.

I think there's a Monty Python skit based on just such a scenario.

I do recall that there was a lengthy dispute in the shipyards over the
drilling/cutting of holes for the rivets. Nobody disputed that cutting
the plates was the responsibility of the Boilermakers and that riveting
the plates together was the responsibility of the Riveters, but each
union claimed that cutting/drilling the holes for the rivets was the
responsibility of its own members. I do not recall how the dispute was
resolved.

Perce