DC: Oregon Sewer Workers Are Busting Their Own Union For ‘Extortion’.
A Portland, Ore, union worker has teamed up with an organization dedicated to union-busting to fight the union that he claims is extorting him.
Dennis Duffey reached out to the Freedom Foundation for help circulating a petition for deauthorization, removing mandatory dues from union contracts, so he and others could freely join other unions or negotiate their own salary.
“If I’m not getting represented, then I have a problem with paying dues,” Duffey told Oregon’s Willemette Week. “I call it extortion.”
Duffey’s actions are a severe threat to his union, Laborers Local 483. The union exists on member dues, and Duffey’s attempt to upset that order and risk the union is “economic violence,” Local 483 former interim president Wesley Buchholz told the Willemette Week. read more
Yeah – because it IS extortion! Unions are nothing but “legalized” organized crime.
Now ain’t that some shit?
All union stink; it’s just that some have more sewage stench than others.
Apologies beforehand, if necessary-
Plumbers need to know three things:
Shit rolls down hill.
Payday is on Friday.
Manhole covers are round.
Pop Quiz:
Why are manhole covers round?
… hot’s on the left, cold’s on the right
manhole covers are round because of no alignment issues … them suckers are heavy!
I’ve probably been in more manholes than Doogie Howser!
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@ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ- close, but not quite. There is a more important reason. It is surprising how few are aware of it.
Can’t fall down the hole.
@Toby, my dad who ran a sewer department for 10 years, then retireing for the third time, told me:
1 Hot goes on the left.
2 Shit runs downhill.
3 Never chew your fingernails.
Round rolls.
@Lowell- bingo! It can’t fall into the hole onto the man inside.
You win either the Cadillac! Its outside in the lot, take your pick.
I’m gonna bow to Lowell.
In the early 70’s, we used to make ‘bar bets’ with nuclear physicists from Rocky Flats in CO, at ‘Dixies’ bar, across the road. We’d put an egg in a corner and bet them $5 they couldn’t break it with a bucket. Before ‘common core.’ We’d drink for free until they left. Laughed a lot, too.
Open the door- If you’re a good plumber, it is almost impossible to retire- people won’t let you.
Well Toby, he retired and started his own business, my brother needed a job.
Man hole covers, what we used to call blue jeans on a girl.
They’re round because no plumber could make all the sides even sized.
Manhole?
Isn’t that Kenyan-born disgraced ex-President b. HUSSEIN obamas favorite gay bar in Shitcago?
All unions stink. The time has long passed since they were necessary. They exist now largely as special interest groups, wobbly front organizations that restrain commerce at the expense of consumers.
Unions.
Jacking up the price of stuff you buy for decades.
And incidentally creating a niche for illegal immigrants.
“Guest workers” my ass.
Out here, because of piss poor design, the sewer backs up during heavy rains in Tamuning and the manhole covers are pushed out of the holes and car tires fall into them.
Awesome buddy!!!