Originally Posted by
fastford
one of my best friends went to work for at&t in atlanta right out of collage in 85 , he is finally going to retire , he told me the non union workers had it better than the union workers , said he never understood that , my uncle worked for a local marble quarry , they were union , the company that bought them out told the workers that if they kept the union out , they would give the workers there non union benefits which was better than there union benefits , especially there retirement plan , the young ones would not listen and voted the union in , my uncle retired 2 years later and drew 800 bucks a month less than what he would have gotten with non union benefits , he is 83 now and still pizzed about it , BTW he was a loyal union man his whole life till then , I stand by my belief that unions are no where near as needed as 50 years ago , in most cases they do more harm than good now days , ive never worked a union job so maybe theres things I dont know , but my views are based on years of observation ....