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I just heard that the union route drivers had their contracts state they would either deliver the loaves of bread or the snack cakes (twinkies, ho ho's, etc) but not both. That meant Hostess had to have two separate drivers make deliveries to the same store on the same day. People that don't work in the private sector, or people that work in a union, have no idea how much extra that cost a company in manpower and gas.
Another story I can attest to personally.
About ten years ago I was a salaried manager in a union company. A few years before I started there the workers wanted written in their contracts that after 40hrs the workers with the most tenure could refuse OT if they didn't want to work. NOT they would have first choice to work but they would have first choice not to work. We always had extra work after their shifts were over and on the weekends. Because those lazy bastards wouldn't work over 40hrs we always had to make the newer employees work longer hours after their shifts and on the weekend which made a lot of them quit. If it would have been done on a rotating basis they probably would have had to work maybe 5 extra hrs a month. Because we were putting it on the same 5 employees they were having to work an extra 10 hours a week, every week.
From that experience, and other stories I've heard, I now say unions don't exist to protect a person's right to work. Unions exist to protect a worker's right not to work.
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