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As a former union member, I would like to say unions are for the most part, a cancer on business.
Just look at the Post Office. A once successful business model, is now on the brink of chapter11 due to the unions negotiated(actually strongarmed via threat of strike) contracts which amount to a staggering ~80% share of the USPS income, versus ~30% and ~50% for FedEx and UPS.
I worked for the Post office, the union was weak and the pay was poor.
I worked for the Post office, the union was weak and the pay was poor.
Regardless what you think it was, the reality was that the compensation packages negotiated by the unions, on behalf of it's members, is killing the company. You cannot have a successful business with a higher than 80% share of your gross income going to salaries and compensation.
my wife's union took THREE YEARS to decide on very minor issues that affected payroll and time off. THREE YEARS. In the end, she got promoted, out of the union, and she couldn't be happier.
I thank my EMPLOYER for today's day off. And i don't have to pay dues to him.
The public and union haters are hurting the post offices. the post offices are in financial trouble because people are using e-mail in place of getting off thier lazy asses and actually buying a card to send and too cheap to buy stamps. People are now too lazy to write out checks instead of autopay, online payments. It's not because of the uinons it's because people got lazy and petty about raising the price of stamps by a few pennies that and all the stupid excused to blame the post office for mail people forgot to mail or didn't want to mail out so the post office to the blame for all the BS excuses as to why that bill or whatever was supposed to be sent didn't get to it's destination from seconds to a whole dreaded death defying day.
The public and union haters are hurting the post offices. the post offices are in financial trouble because people are using e-mail in place of getting off thier lazy asses and actually buying a card to send and too cheap to buy stamps. People are now too lazy to write out checks instead of autopay, online payments. It's not because of the uinons it's because people got lazy and petty about raising the price of stamps by a few pennies that and all the stupid excused to blame the post office for mail people forgot to mail or didn't want to mail out so the post office to the blame for all the BS excuses as to why that bill or whatever was supposed to be sent didn't get to it's destination from seconds to a whole dreaded death defying day.
Well, how does UPS, FedEX and others succeed without delivering mail. I mean the USPS has a monopoly on the use of mail boxes, and they still cant make it work.
my wife's union took THREE YEARS to decide on very minor issues that affected payroll and time off. THREE YEARS. In the end, she got promoted, out of the union, and she couldn't be happier.
I thank my EMPLOYER for today's day off. And i don't have to pay dues to him.
Huh where I work people like you get the day off the backs of the union and it's members who pay the union to get that holiday off. Without the unions and the members say goodbye to that nice employer who gives you that day off or rather say goodbye to the lesser paid union member who pays for both of you to get that day off. You wife is lucy she was promoted instead just getting out of the union and that she doesn't have a bastard who gets away with anything he/she wants to torture her because of nephotism, favortism. Oh wait did your wife work in a political/Gov't job? that makes all the difference and it was those jobs with those unions and it's paying members that got you that day off.
The public and union haters are hurting the post offices. the post offices are in financial trouble because people are using e-mail in place of getting off thier lazy asses and actually buying a card to send and too cheap to buy stamps. People are now too lazy to write out checks instead of autopay, online payments. It's not because of the uinons it's because people got lazy and petty about raising the price of stamps by a few pennies that and all the stupid excused to blame the post office for mail people forgot to mail or didn't want to mail out so the post office to the blame for all the BS excuses as to why that bill or whatever was supposed to be sent didn't get to it's destination from seconds to a whole dreaded death defying day.
Sure blame it on email and people being too lazy to pay bills through outdated methods. I don't think so. People pay bills online because its instant, safer and convenient. There's plenty of commerce going on online to make up for the lack of bills paid through mail.
The reason usps is in trouble is because the more business (work) you give the employees, the more they hate you.
The public and union haters are hurting the post offices. the post offices are in financial trouble because people are using e-mail in place of getting off thier lazy asses and actually buying a card to send and too cheap to buy stamps. People are now too lazy to write out checks instead of autopay, online payments. It's not because of the uinons it's because people got lazy and petty about raising the price of stamps by a few pennies that and all the stupid excused to blame the post office for mail people forgot to mail or didn't want to mail out so the post office to the blame for all the BS excuses as to why that bill or whatever was supposed to be sent didn't get to it's destination from seconds to a whole dreaded death defying day.
Or the fact that its 2011 and people and business are using technology to be more efficient. Most banks now offer better rates for those using on line bill payment as it saves them money. The USPS has not been able to adapt to the new reality due to its excessive labor costs.
Good thing the govt wasn't behind horseshoes in the 1800s or we'd still have thousands of govt blacksmiths sitting on their dead a$$es collecting a govt wage benefits and pension
The public and union haters are hurting the post offices. the post offices are in financial trouble because people are using e-mail in place of getting off thier lazy asses and actually buying a card to send and too cheap to buy stamps. People are now too lazy to write out checks instead of autopay, online payments. It's not because of the uinons it's because people got lazy and petty about raising the price of stamps by a few pennies that and all the stupid excused to blame the post office for mail people forgot to mail or didn't want to mail out so the post office to the blame for all the BS excuses as to why that bill or whatever was supposed to be sent didn't get to it's destination from seconds to a whole dreaded death defying day.
Yes, I hear that these same lazy bums buy their food at supermarkets instead of hunting and gathering. They don't even make their own soap!
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