Exactly, make the workforce desperate.
Isnāt it ridiculous to suggest that an employer would fire a productive worker just because they didnāt like him/her? But of course, that is what @castoli believes thatās what happened to him.
Can the union get rid of them?
No, thatās not ridiculous. My dad has been guilty of this several times. He would lose his temper, fire someone just because he felt like itā¦ and then he felt better, the employee was on the streets, and my dad moved on with no repercussions.
Youāre assuming that all employers are reasonable. Thatās definitely not the case.
An employer(manager) fired a friend of mine because he found out my friend dated his girlfriend previously for almost 2 years. Obviously they had sexual relations. This proved to be too much for this shit-box manager so he made up an excuse and fired him. The guy was very productive. Didnāt matter. If there was justice in this world that asshole manager would have been fired and potentially sued. This was in Florida, a right-to-work state, after 6 solid years of service. Doubt this would have happened if he was in a union.
i have only seen it happen once and it was at a nuclear plant and the individual put his union brothers at risk of being exposed to radiationā¦therefore, the union allowed the company to fire the individual and this was in florida
It simply boils down to the union wants to assure that there is no chance that the employer can fire a productive employee and a 100% chance that all the dirt bag employees keep their jobs.
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The benefit to your employees is that you have a business with demand for labor in the first place. The corollary to this is that other people do too, with more opportunities for others to enter the market and compete.
Perhaps you altruistically pay your employees far above the market rate for their labor and, if so, thatās great that you can run a business like that. Otherwise, right-to-work also forces you to compete against other employers. If youāre exploitative, your people can simply leave. If you only hire duds who will work for peanuts, your customers will eventually get sick of dealing with you and go to the supplier who meets their needs.
I believe modern unions, especially public-sector unions, are a net drain on society. That wasnāt always the case, but I believe it is today. Iāve yet to work with one that benefits the members compared to other options readily available locally, unless youāre a guy looking for an easy paycheck, that is.
If you donāt believe me, try visiting Detroit.
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Grocery distribution. Itās not an excuse, we have to. That was the whole point of what I said. Our increased profits are mostly inflationary. Which in turn gets spent on our inflated costs.
For instance last year it cost roughly $450 to fill a truck with diesel and another $150 to fill the reefer. These trucks get filled on average twice a day, so $1200 a day per truck average fuel cost. Currently itās around $825 + $275 x 2 = $2200 a day per truck for a fleet of roughly 65. An extra $1000 a day per truck for 365 days. About 23 million dollars a year MORE than last year. We also contract to fleet services that add their costs. Vendors that deliver to us have to raise their costs as well. If we donāt raise prices how can we pay our employees competitively? Buy equipment? Continue to stay in business?
Texas is an at-will state. You donāt have to make up a reason and pretend it was āfor cause.ā .
Why shouldnāt your father be able to fire anyone for any reason he wants from his business?
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You do if you donāt want to pay unemployment.
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If you cannot tell, I despise unions. I had to work around some of the least productive dead beats and see them get the same pay as the producers. It is criminal!
Hereās the worst example: If an essential piece of equipment failed and it required calling in a small crew, usually 1 to 3 men, there was a callout list to assure equal overtime distribution (union requirement from bargaining). The supervisor got the call from āoperationsā to send in a crew.
The āoperationsā supervisor was familiar with the talents and work ethic of all the maintenance crew. They had worked with them in the past. They would ask who would be called in. If they knew it was a dead beat they would demand another. The union required that the low overtime man had the opportunity to make the overtime. And āoperationsā knew which were the capable employees. They might end up calling 5 people in for overtime that only needed 2 capable men. A pure waste of money. And get this. They felt entitled to the money.
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You would need to have documentation to back up the claim of cause.
And this was caused by the price gouging of the gas and oil companies.
Last time this fool was spouting off in PWI about wanting to restrict access to automatic AR-15s.
Then he got real quiet after he learned AR doesnāt mean Assault Rifle and that AR-15s werenāt āmilitary weaponsāā¦ curious why he discontinued his line of argument after realizing this.
Iām sure heās very well informed on this subject too, after claiming that the inflation crisis could be solved by printing more money.
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Idiot, money is rarely āprintedā any longer. Keystrokes on computers add to the balance of accounts.
When did I claim that creating currency solves inflation? I have been saying that it doesnāt cause inflation, like you probably believe.
You obviously didnāt follow my posts properly.
And beef prices being up 20% is prices gouging? Chicken and pork up 15% was price gouging? How about paper products up 12%? New cars up 25% and used cars up 33%? All these companies just decided to gouge the consumer?
If we raise our prices to give our employees a raise, are we price gouging?
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So you think an increase of 25% or so is price gouging? I highly doubt any court would agree with this one.
Morality? They are running a business for profit. Or is making too much money immoral now? Oh wait, I am sure it is to you.
Yes, most companies are putting up all time highs recently - not just oil. The company I am general counsel for is also putting up all time highs because of fuel surcharges which are based on a percentage. When everything is skyrocketing due to inflation - money is worth less. The same or slightly higher percentage on more money is going to lead to all time highsā¦
Again, you know nothing about business other than what you google and you never will.
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Yes, you immoral bigot.
He has zero clue about how the world actually works.