Goes thru me like a knife young teamsters brown nosing

[TEB]

Kissing management ass I tell em young union men you just like being on plantation yes boss. Those people hate your guts for the big dollars we make and they will cut your throat. Always been a war between labor and management I been on this shit sandwich 32 years and i always been courteous when courtesy was directed my way.

But if your asshole manager I’ll go asshole straight back at you I’ll grievance you I’ll hostile work environment you thru union hall and fed labor board. Was gonna retire in 5 years, at 57 I’ll go now until our two youngest sons both 14 thru college. I knew in 04 when our one son was born I wasn’t retiring at 57 then we adopted our other son. We did same for our girls got them educated and established I hope be able to do same my wife and I. For these two boys I now realize that I’m a dinosaur all the old Union brothers retired. Ten years I’m out off this shit buffet take my pension I cannot stand ass kissers.

[RandySF]

1. Tell them the story bout my uncle who was UAW

and shared with me stories of grown men urinating along the assembly line before they finally won sufficient bathroom breaks.

[democrank]

2. Keep on fighting, TEB.

Perhaps some of the young ones you mentioned don’t have an appreciation for what older workers have gone through over the years. Labor’s fight with management over safe, humane working conditions and fair wages has been a rough one. The gains made didn’t happen through “brown-nosing” as you put it. Quite the opposite.

Stay strong, TEB. You’re inspirational.

[True Blue American]

3. Tell your young Sons

About the Pinkertons brought in to kill strikers. The many years of strikes that gave them decent benefits.

Tell them about how many families suffered while men were on strike. Then tell them about how the younger generation voted for Republicans who did everything they could to kill those same Unions.

Tell them how Ronald Reagan, a former Union President when he needed the money broke the Controllers Union.

Better yet, let them watch the History channel to show the Pinkertons bloody massacre. Or read the History of Unions and their demise that destroyed the middle class.

[Bob Loblaw]

4. They should also watch Matewan

[True Blue American]

5. This?

https://blairmountainreenactment.wordpress.com/tag/matewan-massacre/

[Bob Loblaw]

8. Yes

A powerful story and good movie.

[TEB]

7. When I was a kid

Growing up in the 1970’s this guy showed up didn’t know who he was. They were treating him like gold booze money Friends of my great uncles ,here he served almost 30 years in prison why I found out later he killed a company cop strike breakers when they were trying to organize the coal mines. And he never rolled on his accomplices to me that guy was great, I thought wow I was maybe 10 years old.

[extvbroadcaster]

6. I saw it all

As I close in on retirement, I have seen it all. I worked in non-union jobs my entire career. But my dad was a proud union worker and I always thought that workers should have a voice. A union provides that. But unfortunately I began work about the times unions declined. And over the years, every place I have worked it has been every man or woman for themselves. So what did I see? A lot of BS. People promoted for ass kissing, having sex with the supervisor, one guy got a promotion for bailing the boss out of jail on a DUI and hushing it up. Another disturbing thing was raises. Without a structure, raises were handed out like candy to those that were well liked. If management did not like you, no raise for you! With no grievance procedure, it was the wild west. I had a supervisor that was a coke head, and would yell and scream at people at 8:30 AM. Another supervisor openly sexually harassed women on the floor. But some women laughed it off, others ignored him, and the ones that objected finally got him transferred. But not fired! Can't have that. The final straw for me was a couple of years ago. We were called into a meeting and told the pension was ending. There would be a new 401K. We used to get 7% contribution to the pension from the company. It is now 2.5%. A 4.5% pay cut across the board. No discussion. The company was doing it, don't like it then get out. The stock market was down last year, so everybody lost money in the 401K. What a mess working has been. I can't wait to retire.