How to capitalize on a labor dispute
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So if you don't hire someone in the union, they send union workers out to hold defamatory signs and fuck your business? Neat.
Maybe I'm missing the humor, or the person that wrote this article is a tool bag:
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Read the article man.
It's is a carpenters union trashing an automotive dealership suspected of hiring non-union carpenters for commercial renovation.
Basically, fucking extortion.
I'm surprised this is legal.
LOL. If you think that's extortion, which it is not, never peek into what corporate America does on a daily basis (to small businesses, consumers, and employees).
I'm pretty sure it is extortion, since they are seeking to obtain jobs for their fucking buddies by threatening to picket a business.
I'm pretty sure it is extortion, since they are seeking to obtain jobs for their fucking buddies by threatening to picket a business.
So many things wrong with your post.
First, you're citing a dictionary, which is LOL - as if a dictionary has any legal authority as to the meaning of extortion.
Second, it's not "their [] buddies." It's the union's "members," which a union has a legal duty to fairly represent.
Third, where do you see the union "threatening to picket a business?" I see a sign, which could be argued is picketing, but I don't see a threat to picket.
The legal definition of extortion has nothing to do with this argument. Extortion as a concept is defined as per the above, and the threats to picket are both implicit and explicit. No fucking union in the world just sets up shop and starts picketing without first trying to shake down a business owner, and the big stick they carry to the fucking meeting is the threat of a picket line, because thankfully, they can't do anything else.
If we actually had real private property in this country, those fucking assholes would be trespassed the fuck out of there, but they exploit the zoning code to find places where they can't legally be ejected to set up their organized whine-fests, so the business owner has no recourse.
A union is a legally protected gang, and there's not much more to it.
That being said, I think people should be able to organize, or unionize, or do whatever they want to do, but I also think that employers should be able to discriminate against members of any labor rights group at their discretion.
Your "right to work" ends the minute you start trying to shake your employer down.
Your "right to work" ends the minute you start trying to shake your employer down.
A dedicated Teamsters Union worker was attending a convention in Las Vegas and decided to check out the local brothels nearby.
When he got to the first one, he asked the Madam, "Is this a union house?"
"No," she replied, "I'm sorry it isn't."
"Well, if I pay you $100 what cut do the girls get?"
"The house gets $80.00 and the girls get $20.00."
Mightily offended at such unfair dealings, the man stomped off down the street in search of a more equitable, hopefully unionized shop.
His search continued until finally he reached a brothel where the Madam responded, "Why yes sir, this is a Union House."
The man asked, "And if I pay you $100 what cut do the girls get?"
The girls get $80.00 and the house gets $20."
"That's more like it!!!".
So he handed the Madam $100, looked around the room and pointed to a stunningly attractive blonde, "I'd like her for the night."
"I'm sure you would, sir," said the Madam, gesturing to an 80 year old woman in the corner, "But Gracy here has Seniority."
When he got to the first one, he asked the Madam, "Is this a union house?"
"No," she replied, "I'm sorry it isn't."
"Well, if I pay you $100 what cut do the girls get?"
"The house gets $80.00 and the girls get $20.00."
Mightily offended at such unfair dealings, the man stomped off down the street in search of a more equitable, hopefully unionized shop.
His search continued until finally he reached a brothel where the Madam responded, "Why yes sir, this is a Union House."
The man asked, "And if I pay you $100 what cut do the girls get?"
The girls get $80.00 and the house gets $20."
"That's more like it!!!".
So he handed the Madam $100, looked around the room and pointed to a stunningly attractive blonde, "I'd like her for the night."
"I'm sure you would, sir," said the Madam, gesturing to an 80 year old woman in the corner, "But Gracy here has Seniority."
I sent this to an old friend of mine from back in my working man days who is actually a shop steward for the Teamsters and he said "Hilarious! I'll send it to the boys downtown."
lol
Not only is that true, but they rarely send the actual union workers (far too lazy for that). They hire college kids to protest for them. Source: I used to be a professional protestor for unions my freshman year in college. It kicked ass.