The Indy Carrier Plant

[togor]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/b...sm-morale.html

A serious look at the plant that stayed open after Trump got involved. Not a hit piece by any means. It does get at something that reminds me of my dad's union plant in the 1970's, how management and labor can be worlds apart.

I can't say that unions ever did anything for me. Quite the opposite in fact, as my old man spent the best years of his life trying to coax work out of unionized foot-draggers of the take-this-job-and-shove-it-variety, something that did not sit well with him. But like a buddy of mine says, a company that gets a union usually deserves one.

[Sandpebble]

Looks like another cricket chirp on this one Togor . The absentee problem they are suffering is something I'm very familiar with and its not a brand new problem .

Between ten and fifteen years ago I ran a construction crew for a decent company. I used to hire a crew of thirty just to make sure that twenty were there every day ....and that's showed up every day.

Some things are the same...unionised or not

[togor]

Good point, Pebble. Makes me wonder though if the whole #MAGA thing will eventually suffer from an absentee problem too. And while we wait to see, there's a thread about Norway giving out free smack to keep us entertained.

[Roadkingtrax]

I thought Trump wanted more Norwegians?

Better reevaluate that policy.