Sailor (09-28-2021)
I was in an airline pilot union. A rare white-collar union with members who lean Right. The primary reason for an airline union is to prevent accident since accidents often kill pilots or their careers regardless of fault. Airlines push their pilots on sleep issues and many accidents were fatigue related.
It's impossible to say how many lives were saved by my union's safety actions, but over the decades, I'm sure it was many. Same goes for saving pilots and their careers. Nobody except the pilot's families care when a cargo plane crashes. The planes are insured and they can hire another pilot.
I'm not a big union guy and,yes, there is a darkside to unions just like there's a darkside to corporate domination over every working American. I am a big fan of balance. Too much domination by one side or the other usually falters as we are seeing happen in America today and with the UAW in the 70s/80s.
After being a military brat for 18 years then signing up myself for another 13 years*, being dumped into the civilian marketplace came as a shock. First, there were shitload more dumbasses out there than I believed could have existed. Literally people with more money than brains. There was also a lot of backstabbing, lying and cheating going on at all levels of employment.
I became truly surprised these assholes were actually making money with an airline when I saw money leaking daily due to incompetent leadership and policies. I became a "unionist" because my life and career literally depended upon stopping the excesses of an incompetent leadership which didn't even know how to fly.
Sorry for the rant. Becoming a union worker was really the lesser of two evils in that scenario and, IMO, I did a lot of good working in safety. Unions may be a pain in the ass, but they are a necessity in the transportation business. Find another way to maintain balance between labor and management/politicians.
*Active duty. Fucking Russians pussied out and I became another Cold War casualty in 1991. I immediately became drilling Reservist.
Last edited by Doc Dutch; 09-28-2021 at 10:29 AM.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Sailor (09-28-2021)
this is good for the country, bad for academia.
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
Guno צְבִי (09-28-2021)
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
I was honestly shocked to see that Occupy Democrats posted this meme on its Facebook page and stated not every kid is cut out for college and that a couple of liberal teachers I know posted this on Facebook as well. You go back several decades and I would expect it. Not today though.
I believe equal protection of our own at-will employment laws for unemployment compensation in our own at-will employment States can help solve this dilemma as well under our form of Capitalism. It would enable more guys to pursue an education instead of an income under any form of Capitalism.
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