[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

Let pose this question. In school, elementary through college, would you agree that some people (5% maybe) are at the top of the class, some (15% maybe ) are at the bottom of the class, and everyone else is pretty much considered average? Also some people reach that upper percentile, and average percentile based on a grading curve.

Well unfortunately businesses don't work that way. They grade everyone the same no matter what. We always help the slower guys when our work is done , so that the job gets done here. It doesn't matter if I am a little faster or slower to my coworkers. It is the guys that work so fast that they do not follow all safety practices, and someone gets hurt or worse killed. We have had numerous injuries and deaths in the last 5 years from that. Why shouldn't there be a level playing field?

You are using a union working environment to describe every working environment. If every business operated with a union, then yeah, the way you described it is how jobs get done. But the reason for that is because unions have collectively decided what baseline performance is required. Then, the lazy guys that are slow or suck at their job gets to coast by as long as they do the minimum amount of work. This results in the guys who work faster, having to pick up there slack.

However, in a non-union business, those guys that consistently under-perform and are always behind are fired. Then, they workers like yourself that are good at your job and consistently perform well are promoted or given a performance-weighted raise.

There shouldn't be a level playing field because the bum down the hall that does the minimum amount of work necessary to collect his pension in 25 years shouldn't get paid the same (or with the same scheduled raises) as a work who does a consistently good job and tries to go above and beyond do perform well.

I run a business that runs on the non-union method and I know a lot of other non-union businesses that run the non-union method.

Let me pose this ? Should a business owner who hires non resident or non citizens, be allowed to work the same projects as legitimate businesses that follow the hiring rules?

Nope, but a business doesn't have to be union in order to assure quality, American workers.

Not every union works the same, trade unions are way different than public sector unions, which are way different than union shops at a business. There are bad apples everywhere. Show me a family that can own a home or even rent one here in the north east on a salary of $12.00 an hour.

Businesses aren't here to make sure Dad gets paid enough so that Mom and the kids can stay home and live in their 3 bedroom house. Long gone are the days of a single working parent and a stay-at-home mom being the norm.

There is no use in explaining it though, cause if you are against ii, you are against it.

Unions have an "Us vs.Them" mentality when dealing with employers. Your posts are pretty consistent with sticking to the cliche Union talking points. Unions aren't the only guilty party, big business definitely is to blame as well. But don't try telling me that Unions are the innocent little guy in all of this.