Vancouver Longshoremen Sabotage Terminal- Locked Out

[ABM]

Leave welfare out of this.

Speaking of which...

A Conservative in a wheelchair entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. He looked across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus sitting over there?" The waitress nodded "yes," so he told her to give Jesus a cup of coffee, on him.

The next patron to come in was an Independent with a hunched back. He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus over there?" The waitress nodded, so he said to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, "my treat."

The third patron to come into the restaurant was a Liberal on crutches. He hobbled over to a booth, sat down and hollered, "Hey there Miss. How about gettin' me a cold glass of Coke!" He too looked across the restaurant and asked, "Is that God's boy over there?" The waitress once again nodded that it was, so he said to give Jesus a cold glass of Coke, "on my bill."

As Jesus got up to leave, he passed by the Conservative, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed." The Conservative felt the strength come back to his legs, got up and danced a jig right out the door.

Jesus also passed by the Independent, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed." The Independent felt his back straightening up, and he raised his hands, praised the Lord and did a series of back flips out the door.

Then Jesus walked up to the Liberal.

The Liberal jumped up and yelled, "Don't touch me... I'm on workman's comp!"

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

No, it's too bad people in this thread are calling unions whores and criminals. I'm just slipping on that nice looking slope that ya'll set down.

But hey, if people want to have rational arguments, then fuck off right?

For the record, my post calling union workers "whores" was sarcasm or in jest or what the fuck ever. I'll be sure to put it in green next time - forgot we have drop-dead-serious peeps on this message board that don't understand sarcasm/humors/jokes.

For the record, so you know, that's exactly what nearly all of my posts are. The exact opposite of your posts.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

I didn't say either of those things about the union members shutting down commerce. What is your beef with me?

It's called "pantiestootightis".

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

I didn't say either of those things about the union members shutting down commerce. What is your beef with me?

Nothing. I wasn't replying to anything you said when I made my first comment. You engaged me.

For the record, my post calling union workers "whores" was sarcasm or in jest or what the fuck ever. I'll be sure to put it in green next time - forgot we have drop-dead-serious peeps on this message board that don't understand sarcasm/humors/jokes.

For the record, so you know, that's exactly what nearly all of my posts are. The exact opposite of your posts.

Well it's hard to keep track of just who is a flaming conservative around here. There's so goddamn many of them.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

lol, you don't know anything about me, or my work ethic. Thanks for playing though.

All I know about you is what you post on this board and you make yourself sound like a lazy self-entitled union worker. Hope I'm wrong.

Your welcome for playing.

 

[MickZagger]

All I know about you is what you post on this board and you make yourself sound like a lazy self-entitled union worker. Hope I'm wrong.

Your welcome for playing.

Lol, where have I ever given the impression that I'm lazy. You could come do my job for day at my production level and it would be last time you thought of me as lazy.

Pencil pushers these days....sigh

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Lol, where have I ever given the impression that I'm lazy. You could come do my job for day at my production level and it would be last time you thought of me as lazy.

Pencil pushers these days....sigh

Now that's what I'm talking about Mic. You work your butt off. There is a reason they form unions, so people who work hard and give their life blood to a company are fairly compensated.

You attitude makes it sound like a union is this great gig where you get all these great benefits for no reason. There is reason you get all those benefits, it's because you don't/can't have a lazy day and work your butt off every working day for your company. You are in a union to protect yourself from being exploited. Those pencil pushers (funny how you take offense about me making assumptions about you yet you do the same thing, "lol") you are talking about would love to exploit your hard work and profit off it all and leave you with nothing.

Bottom Line: Union work is hard, taking orders from the boss, work! Posters against unions need to realize union workers aren't free loaders taking advantage of companies, they work hard and constantly have to take orders to keep the company going, they are an integral part of the company and should be treated like that.

BTW- pencil pusher work their asses off too to the tune of ungodly amount of hours. There are few easy gigs out there . . .

 

[THE HCP]

As of last month I am now a union member. Portland was one of the last major cities that wasn't union for working in the TV industry.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

As of last month I am now a union member. Portland was one of the last major cities that wasn't union for working in the TV industry.

Good. Your posts show how hard you have worked and the sacrifices involved with the constant travel. Nice to know you have a union looking out for you and making sure you don't get screwed as you devote your career to this industry.

 

[PapaG]

As of last month I am now a union member. Portland was one of the last major cities that wasn't union for working in the TV industry.

You guys work your asses off, HCP. I have no issue with it at all.

 

[THE HCP]

I was just excited at the idea of getting benefits for my family.

 

[THE HCP]

Zags and his boys are out there workin' hard to I'm sure. It's too bad that unions have the stigma they do, but there has been a history of shady shit going down.

 

[MickZagger]

Now that's what I'm talking about Mic. You work your butt off. There is a reason they form unions, so people who work hard and give their life blood to a company are fairly compensated.

You attitude makes it sound like a union is this great gig where you get all these great benefits for no reason. There is reason you get all those benefits, it's because you don't/can't have a lazy day and work your butt off every working day for your company. You are in a union to protect yourself from being exploited. Those pencil pushers (funny how you take offense about me making assumptions about you yet you do the same thing, "lol") you are talking about would love to exploit your hard work and profit off it all and leave you with nothing.

Bottom Line: Union work is hard, taking orders from the boss, work! Posters against unions need to realize union workers aren't free loaders taking advantage of companies, they work hard and constantly have to take orders to keep the company going, they are an integral part of the company and should be treated like that.

BTW- pencil pusher work their asses off too to the tune of ungodly amount of hours. There are few easy gigs out there . . .

Just because I gloat to the haters on here about great benefits, retirement and medical we get doesn't mean I'm suggesting we just get it for free. I'd say a majority of the people that I work with hold up there end of the bargain work wise.

We average 10 hours of work a day, BTW.

 

[MickZagger]

As of last month I am now a union member. Portland was one of the last major cities that wasn't union for working in the TV industry.

Atta kid, hum babe.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

I was just excited at the idea of getting benefits for my family.

Communist.

 

[jlprk]

I have just never understood why unions turn to thuggery, murder... whenever they want more money or to not be in charge.

Article:

United Grain managers said Wednesday that a Vancouver longshore union officer had stuck a metal pipe into a conveyer system and put sand and water into railcar moving equipment.

Comments after article:

Kinda convenient, "un-named local union leader", seen but not identified, because he's figment of a vivid imagination. Mitsui doesn't want to name the criminal in order to protect his family? Uh-huh.

Longshoremen up and down the West Coast handle most of the US Asian trade. This cargo is handled carefully because it is understood that damage to cargo benefits no one and simply gives the bosses an issue to bludgeon the workers. That is why the auto operation in the Portland/Vancouver area has a very low incidence of damage. Longshoremen constantly receive lectures from the leadership on this issue. When longshoremen handle delicate cargo like reefers, it is understood that here is a special responsibility in handling perishable cargo. This is not idle supposition. It is knowledge gained from 20 years of experience on the waterfront.

Therefore, the longshoremen who work grain have absolutely nothing to gain by sabotaging the work at United and it certainly would not be Longshore Union policy. Everybody understands this, including the employers. The employers, however, have much to gain. They can smear the longshoremen and engineer a pretext for a lockout. There is nothing new about such tactics. In the past, mine owners arranged for their own mines to be dynamited to frame up strikers. Police agents infiltrate peaceful demonstrators to instigate violence.

The bulk of the public, however, don't understand this. While they may not like corporations, they don't understand provocations. They can't believe that employers would sabotage their own operations to smear workers, but it has a long and sordid history.