Scum of the Earth: Unions & Strikers
For the last few days, the administrative staff at the hospital I work with, and at all public hospitals across the state, have been threatening strike action trying to garner a more impressive pay rise than 3.5%. Today, they are actually going on strike.
I have serious issues with people who think that by stopping work they are sticking it to the establishment and showing how committed they are to demanding that their voices be heard. There are plenty of other ways to stand out from the crowd and be heard. People who go on strike deserve to wear any negative fallout from their stupid actions and shouldn't hide behind the "I'm in a union, you can't do this to me!" banner. We work in a hospital for fucks sake. You might not think that administrative staff going on strike is going to change things, but let me ask you this: Who is it that will admit you to hospital? Who bills your accounts? Who books the theaters? Who makes the appointments? Who does all the thankless tasks you probably would never think of that are necessary to the effective running of a hospital, which is the kind of workplace that cannot afford to have staff on strike?
Going on strike is not the answer. You may not think it, but it endangers the effectiveness of the workplace. Some work can be pushed onto other people, other work cannot. You don't really want some inexperienced person trying to run things do you? Chances are they'll fuck it up.
Anyway, the main reason I'm pissed off is because they are arguing for "fair wages". The public health system has the BEST pay scale out of ANY other alternatives in this state. And I've worked for all the alternatives and I'm quite prepared to scan in and email around my payslips to anyone who thinks otherwise. I am paid $7 an hour MORE than what I used to (that's $15,470 more per year, which is a massive increase) when I was working in the private sector. In one year I have the approximate case load that I used to have in a month. All year, I have sat on my arse, done sweet fuck all compared to what I used to do and got paid $15K a year more to do it in. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT????
The other reason I'm pissed. Oh yeah, union members keep telling me that they're doing this for my benefit as well and that I'm anti union and am therefore the devil. Bullshit. I am not anti union. I'm all for unions, when it's a union for people who actually have risky jobs, shit pay or are exploited in some way. But don't they realise we are on a seriously sweet deal? Don't fuck that up for me. Seriously.
And don't strike either. Just because I'm on a sweet deal and have nothing to do, doesn't mean I want to have to do your work, which is what I will be doing today. So any mistakes that happen because I don't know what the fuck I am doing, are going to come back to me, I'm the one who's going to get in the shit for it, and not you union wankers who put me in this position.
Unions are evil as all hell, Not to say that companies arn't evil either. In the end though unions end up costing both you money via fees and your company money via legal issues and pain felt in the production/P.R dept.
In the end Unions are nothing more than a parasite or leach. It feeds off you to keep it's pockets lined. And as you start to be content it pushes people to make issues to once again keep minds distracted.
I remember when I used to work in UPS the unions there were bullshit. Drivers got all the goodies and connections to upper heads in the union while the guys on the line doing 1,000% more work for 50% less money got the shaft, Along with the bill.
For me it wasn't that much of an issue because I wasn't there for the money or job, I could of left any time I wanted but stayed a whole year before I left. The thing is that being exposed to this really showed me how the guys in the back doing all the work are truly underpaid.
Anyway, I wish I could see these peoples expenses compared to the work that they do and how much of the expenses have to do anything to do with their job. I say this because most of the time Union beggers tend to cry about how bad they have it when they actually have it pretty good.
It's like people think they have a "right" to getting a gold star every month even though they havn't done anything to warrent it unless you consider doing your job an improvement. Be afraid, It's only gonna get worse with the everyone is a winner mentallity that these people have forced into their kids schools.
Geeeeeeez, I sound like an old good ranting about how people suck. Now I know why the wise drink, So they don't have to hear themselves.
I really don't understand why unions say they work too hard and are underpaid. Have any of them ever taken a look at the self-employed industry? They are constantly working, with no benefits, without even a guarentee of ever getting paid. Some are rich, most will fail. Everyone in a union is "equal" sounds like another way of explaining communism to me. Unions say they work 40 hour work weeks, my father was self employed he worked at least 84 hours a week and hardly survived for many years before it became successful. I'm sorry union workers but these people actually take the time and effort to get higher learning and work harder. If anyone should earn more its these people. But they lose money when trying to pay the ever increasing union wages to the point where they have to lay people off. Then people act like they never saw it coming. It may sound mean ut I strongly think that better workers who are more skilled deserve the better pay more than their lazy colleagues. No-one is being exploited anymore, they haven't been for at least 30 years now. But demands still go up, where is the fairness in this?
Oh my god yes! Let's hear it for the little guys who dedicate everything they've got to what they're doing!
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