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Sounds like the typical NON-UNION grocery whorehouse, meat-packing plant, produce house, DC, etc. Only difference is that you can understand what the union guys are saying because they speak English.Originally Posted by GMAN
I can always tell when I am in a union shop before anyone says a thing. You see a lot of people sitting or standing around doing nothing. And when they see you they just continue sitting or standing around doing nothing until the mood strikes them.
The real problem here isn't so much union vs. non-union, it's that the people in the warehouse, steel plant, DC, etc are paid by the HOUR. They're not on piece-rate pay, so they can care less if you're sitting there for free.
My cousin works at a place called Majestic Steel in Bedord Heights, Ohio...a NON-UNION steel company that Snowman is probably familiar with. With the dollar down and exports up, this place is having a record year cranking out steel. Drive by sometime and you will see OTR flatbed trucks lined up round the block waiting to get loaded/unloaded. Guess how much these guys are making for their time? Peanuts.
Your typical warehouse is staffed based on cost. They know they will have X amount of loads and have to hire Y amount of trucks. If you guys went on the clock the moment you checked-in to the guardshack or bumped the dock, they would have to hire more people, forklifts, etc to get you in-and-out quicker.
My dad ran his own business, and if one his employees arrived on the job and the customer didn't have his shit together, dad was still charging the customer 40 bucks an hour for his tech to sit there tying up the company van. Only in OTR do people sit around for free/peanuts and then blame everyone else that they're not making money. :roll: