Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
Richard Nixon
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From the Washington Examiner:
The U.S. Postal Service must hire 9,000 employees over the next three months to staff regional part-time post offices as part of a settlement it negotiated with the American Postal Workers Union. The new postal employees will be working at offices that are open for four to six hours a day. The basic deal, reached through an arbitration judge, was that the hours at the regional offices would be limited but the workers must all be APWU members and at least a third must be full-time employees. "We haven't had APWU members in most of these offices in decades, and now to have to have full-time positions in six-hour offices — that's phenomenal."The piece didn't identify the judicial whore, but I have a new Bad Judge of the Year nominee. The USPS is hamstrung by multi-billion dollar deficits, absurdly noncompetitive labor costs, and a mature, obsolete cash cow monopoly business which has already been analogously spun off/privatized by most of our trading partners. To make things worse, even though many, if not most post offices and/or distribution centers lose money, USPS management finds itself blocked by political whores in DC protecting the facilities in their districts or states, even blocking managerial actions to implement cost-saving measures, modify operating hours, or set prices. Not to mention corrupt public sector unionist pacts that essentially give management little control over their biggest cost.
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(IPI). "No one should ever be forced to financially support an organization that they fundamentally disagree with...
However, in 23 states and Washington, D.C., government workers can be forced to join a union and have mandatory dues deducted from their paychecks."
The example of working rules reminds me of a Wisconsin project I once worked on. I had to walk a county DBA through a test upgrade project. She had taken off without telling me in the early afternoon to have her dog's nails clipped. At 5PM I was at her desk when her (non-technical) boss stopped at her desk, gave me the evil eye, and specifically told her she didn't have to stay, she could go home for the day... I was contractually required to be at the facility from 7:30AM-7PM (longer if I had software patching to do), could only bill 8 hours, and never got paid a dime for overtime. I've worked on a number of projects where we contractors (vs. civil servants) did the real work while earning less total compensation (with benefits).
They dont have to join the union they can go work somewhere else
That union fascists can steal from their pockets via government-sanctioned plunder and a local government monopoly on public schools is fundamentally unjust. Self-serving union parasites not only deprive other people from making a living without sacrificing their political speech and liberty, they fundamentally are breaching their professional responsibilities with their customers, the taxpayers and their children.
(Reason). Which state would you kick out of the union?
A good start: the Left Coast, VT, Taxachusetts, DC, NY, MD, IL, HI...
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Barry Manilow, "Some Kind of a Friend"
