Joe Biden’s accomplishments in 47 years of Politics....

[Jeff Niceswanger]

Originally Posted by Randy Wells

Jeff, I am a card carrying union member 45 years, my local serves the Oil and Gas industry, Mining, coal power, and military. Why would the Rank and File support a party that wants to shut all of these entities down. I know how the Union bosses vote they will sell there Freedom and Liberty for a good contract. Labor is a moot point when the jobs are shipped to China. Or the gates are opened and we are flooded with a 3rd world uneducated labor force.

Randy Wells

We support it because of the survival instinct. There's no good choice for us guys. Yes the Democrats are pushing agendas that will hurt the oil industry, but there's a lot more to this battle than one industry.
And I fully agree with your previous statement about firings. Boy could I tell you some stories. The union sit in on new hire interviews, and even with the best intentions, some of our new hires turned out to be real duds. We tried like heck to get problem maker/lazy new hires dismissed before their probationary period ran out and they became members of the union. But our company had a big heart, or sometimes just laziness, and it was tough to get them to unload people. Once they became paying members, we were forced by law to represent them. Our membership did not want slackers, far from it. If one member did not carry his weight, the guy beside him, or even another shift did. The ones I hated most was when one member was against another member. I remember when a fight broke out between a maintenance worker and a production worker. Both of them very good workers. The plant manager came to me and said " This is a UNION issue. " You fix it !