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Originally Posted by lurch
Why do you blame the company? Maybe it is the Union who will not accept what the company has to offer? If the Union would negotiate with companies so that BOTH parties are happy then maybe there would be less strikes....just a thought  |
Not in my case.We just signed a contract last year.No problems in negotiating a contract.It was a local management problem.The trail runs deep and the merge of the two shops was in the making for at least 3-4 years.Most of the non-union employees have been there under 3 years.They were hired for short money and given large pay raises to foil them because the company knew they would have to bring them to our pay scale which was always 4-5 dollars/hr more.So the new crew saw fat pay raises and pizza party's every friday.The Union shop that I've been in going on 11yrs has guys from 24 down to 5 yrs being the lowest.We got the work that the non union guys couldn't do.Pretty much anything besides an oil change.When they saw our contract they saw the pay raises and were convinced they do better on their own.Just one instance of the company trying to pull the blinders over these guys eyes.There's more but I don't want to bore you.