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Old 07-03-2012, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
I've mentioned this story before... I was working selling temporary help (I know, the Great Evil ) and talking to the vice pres at a client company.

I ended up being present during a conversation between the exec and a truck driver. The driver talked about how their used to be two parties at the negotiating table, the owners and the workers, with the workers repped by their unions. Now (he said) there's three, the owners, the workers, and the unions. He believed 'the unions' (he was certainly speaking to the Teamsters union) were working for themselves and a leech. As he walked away he said something like 'long live the workers'

Very entertaining.

Pete
As he hired temp workers (scabs) to replace union drivers at much reduced wages, from you......right?

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

Dave
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