We still have the PHD's at the UPTE board of directors (sorry I meant
GED's) always wanting to help Director Parney (PHD) run the Laboratory.
Please be aware Sen. Ron Paul (who has "some" good ideas) is proposing a National Right to Work law.
Video,
http://www.righttoworkcommittee.org/rtwash_petition.aspx?pid=dw2
It simply means I would not be fired if I leave a union. But if my coworker could be in a union if they choose.
Why would I be fired if I choose not to pay union dues? Seems kind of dumb actually. Even if I opt out i still have to pay the union.
Why?
However you feel about Ron Paul he is right on this and please keep an eye out (in our complicated, busy life) for this National Right to Work law.
Please educate yourself on this because the are the main contributers to Jerry Brown, etc...not to mention Bart, Numi, Hostess, etc.
Please be aware Sen. Ron Paul (who has "some" good ideas) is proposing a National Right to Work law.
Video,
http://www.righttoworkcommittee.org/rtwash_petition.aspx?pid=dw2
It simply means I would not be fired if I leave a union. But if my coworker could be in a union if they choose.
Why would I be fired if I choose not to pay union dues? Seems kind of dumb actually. Even if I opt out i still have to pay the union.
Why?
However you feel about Ron Paul he is right on this and please keep an eye out (in our complicated, busy life) for this National Right to Work law.
Please educate yourself on this because the are the main contributers to Jerry Brown, etc...not to mention Bart, Numi, Hostess, etc.
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July 16, 2013 at 12:34 PM
You are politically incorrect in the extreme, but still correct. Expect to be flamed for your correct opinions.
I didn't think so.
Unfortunately you are forced to be in a union or be fired, the reason for the posting.
With some high school drop out running the union and trying to tell the Parnster how to manage the Lab.
Unions for professionals are another matter. As much as people whine on this blog about the evil LLC management, no one has had enough cojones to form a professional staff union. Bettis Atomic Laboratory, which is a NNSA Naval Reactor Lab (NA-30), managed by Bechtel has gone this route:
http://www.bettisunion.org/index.html
so has thier sister lab Knolls:
http://www.kaplunion.org/
I also think we should be careful about labeling people by their education or lack of education in terms of their leadership roles, and what they are capable of. Alfred E. Smith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Smith) was a great governor of New York State, with very modest upbrining and education and rose up through the ranks of Tammany Hall. But he became a very influential governor (great documentary with sections about him: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/)
While I can't predict the future for the "GED," Maybe we can get tidbits of what he has or has not done, warranting our ire and scrutiny.
I'm never surprised to see very intelligent and very hard working people who do not have college or advanced degrees. I have multiple advanced degrees including a PhD and my best friend only has a high school education, but I consider her to be one of the sharpest, smartest, wisest, and talented people I have ever met. Sure, she can't set up and solve a nonlinear system of PDEs. But her eidetic memory and high IQ makes her incredibly good at what she does for a living.
It is truly a parasite and will hide behind helping the Lab "work safer" but in the background is already trying to suck it dry.
It is like giving the controls of an airliner to an infant.
Just a bunch of babies with a union mentality looking any way they can screw the Laboratory.
I see someone wearing a UPTE shirt during the work day and see a follower.
What is your solution? That US should become more like China? More capitalistic than the US, weaker enforcement of labor protection laws, weak labor unions? You should move to China. You might be happier there.
July 19, 2013 at 2:21 AM
Who is "we"?? If you think low-skilled workers are paid more in private industry to support your socialist views, you are mistaken.
His opinion (and mine) is that a lot of these heavily unionized cities are going to start going bankrupt because unions are just too expensive.
He said especially in liberal states like PR of Kalifornia, NY and Illinois.
Why do we pay a union electrician $115 an hour to change light bulbs on the San Mateo bridge?
What is wrong with $30 -40 an hour (which is what I make).
Detroit is just the beginning.
The great Obama/Liberal/Nanny state experiment will be the end of our wonderful country that our courageous veterans have sacrificed for.
And unions are a huge part (not all) of the problem not the solution.