Trump found guilty!

[nickh]

All I can say is I want a hit off of the Bong some of you are smoking!

[Jeff Niceswanger]

Originally Posted by nickh

All I can say is I want a hit off of the Bong some of you are smoking!

You remined me of some memories. The bummer of being Union President was the fear of being busted with illegals in your system. We had a 4 millibars tolerance in the drug policy. Didn't want that for myself, or the membership, so for 43 years I refrained. The day I retired I got a knock at the door. The entire neighborhood knew it was going to be my last day. Mike, my next-door neighbor and lead guitar player for one of the local bands is standing on my porch. Sue answers the door and says you have company, I look to see Mike saying. 'Your mine"!! Yep, the bong lit that evening. ...LOL

[nickh]

Originally Posted by Jeff Niceswanger

You remined me of some memories. The bummer of being Union President was the fear of being busted with illegals in your system. We had a 4 millibars tolerance in the drug policy. Didn't want that for myself, or the membership, so for 43 years I refrained. The day I retired I got a knock at the door. The entire neighborhood knew it was going to be my last day. Mike, my next-door neighbor and lead guitar player for one of the local bands is standing on my porch. Sue answers the door and says you have company, I look to see Mike saying. 'Your mine"!! Yep, the bong lit that evening. ...LOL

Jeff for over 40 years in the refineries down here I have had to take random hair folical and random drug screens. Now that I have retired I plan on burning a couple myself..LOL

[SStockDart]

Never mind

[SStockDart]

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Originally Posted by nickh

Jeff for over 40 years in the refineries down here I have had to take random hair folical and random drug screens. Now that I have retired I plan on burning a couple myself..LOL

Funny! Before I retired we had ( Random) drug testing . Usually in Dec when the City realized uh oh we have to test. Guess who got pulled in equipment service time after time? Got tired of it. Was tested 4 times in a year and really made me mad.
So I changed the name on a pair of coveralls to Random. I show up and they are staring at me! ; Seriously ��*♂️!
I ask; am I the only guy in Equipment Services that can pass the Whizz quiz and breathe test?
I was never called in again!
As for the Union? Good and bad, good for training , health care , wages and pension, bad for protected members that deserve to be fired..system is flawed. Especially State unions SEIU..

[Eddies66]

Every month come rain or shine!

[Jeff Niceswanger]

Originally Posted by Barry Polley

Funny! Before I retired we had ( Random) drug testing . Usually in Dec when the City realized uh oh we have to test. Guess who got pulled in equipment service time after time? Got tired of it. Was tested 4 times in a year and really made me mad.
So I changed the name on a pair of coveralls to Random. I show up and they are staring at me! ; Seriously ��*♂️!
I ask; am I the only guy in Equipment Services that can pass the Whizz quiz and breathe test?
I was never called in again!
As for the Union? Good and bad, good for training, health care, wages and pension, bad for protected members that deserve to be fired..system is flawed. Especially State unions SEIU..

Agree with you. 90 % of the reason most members want to be union in the first place is your statement of "unions are good for training, health care, wages and pension,". After member get all of those, or at least improvements... then a few ridge runners run right along the ridge. I had a couple of them that drove us nuts. They would run right on the edge of being fired. Once every 3 years it was contract time. At that time, we sent out surveys, talked to members at the monthly meetings, and went back to our notes from the previous couple years on what had happened, who got screwed over and how. After compiling, we then crafted about 40 proposals. Members then voted on the most important 20 of those. Then we categorized them from need to just want. After we passed a contract that was agreed upon by both us and the company, it was time to enforce it. Some of language was installed by the company, and sometimes the members bitched at what they considered to backward steps, but it is a two-way street, and the company owns the place. Our jobs are to make sure the company does what they told us they would do in negotiations. Sometimes the shop bosses had a pissy attitude as many times we came out of negotiations with better benefits etc. than they had. We had yearly officers' elections, so if you did a crappy job, you were voted out. I usually ran unopposed, but occasionally a couple guys would want me out of there as they were of the opinion I was a suck a**. Every union has a couple guys that think the union owns the place, instead of the other way around. We are there to enforce the contract, period. Not to try to enforce what we "wish" was in the contract. Sometimes you could sweet talk them into agreeing with something, but it was 100% up to them if whatever you're trying to accomplish is not specially printed in that contract. Thats where the "suck a** comes in to it. I did the job for 10 years until retirement. Since I left no one has made it more than a couple years. It's not an easy job and getting clobbered from both sides sometimes gets old in a hurry. But it put me in a nice middle-class home and lifestyle and kept me racing a Superstocker, a damn fast one I might add, for decades.

[Eddies66]

Originally Posted by Jeff Niceswanger

Agree with you. 90 % of the reason most members want to be union in the first place is your statement of "unions are good for training, health care, wages and pension,". After member get all of those, or at least improvements... then a few ridge runners run right along the ridge. I had a couple of them that drove us nuts. They would run right on the edge of being fired. Once every 3 years it was contract time. At that time, we sent out surveys, talked to members at the monthly meetings, and went back to our notes from the previous couple years on what had happened, who got screwed over and how. After compiling, we then crafted about 40 proposals. Members then voted on the most important 20 of those. Then we categorized them from need to just want. After we passed a contract that was agreed upon by both us and the company, it was time to enforce it. Some of language was installed by the company, and sometimes the members bitched at what they considered to backward steps, but it is a two-way street, and the company owns the place. Our jobs are to make sure the company does what they told us they would do in negotiations. Sometimes the shop bosses had a pissy attitude as many times we came out of negotiations with better benefits etc. than they had. We had yearly officers' elections, so if you did a crappy job, you were voted out. I usually ran unopposed, but occasionally a couple guys would want me out of there as they were of the opinion I was a suck a**. Every union has a couple guys that think the union owns the place, instead of the other way around. We are there to enforce the contract, period. Not to try to enforce what we "wish" was in the contract. Sometimes you could sweet talk them into agreeing with something, but it was 100% up to them if whatever you're trying to accomplish is not specially printed in that contract. Thats where the "suck a** comes in to it. I did the job for 10 years until retirement. Since I left no one has made it more than a couple years. It's not an easy job and getting clobbered from both sides sometimes gets old in a hurry. But it put me in a nice middle-class home and lifestyle and kept me racing a Superstocker, a damn fast one I might add, for decades.

Union Strong!!

[SStockDart]

Tests the day after Super Bowl would usually get rid if the undesireables.