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Major Nikon

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4. Sounds just like the right wing mantra that unions are there to protect bad employees

Reply to Logical (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 11, 2014, 08:36 PM

Apr 2014

All it really does is display a fundamental ignorance of how collective bargaining works.

Unions are there to protect ALL employees they represent, regardless of whether they are bad or not. If they refuse, an employee can file an unfair labor practice or sue the union. Furthermore if a union refuses to represent "bad" employees by compelling management to follow their own rules, it compromises their ability to represent everyone else.

Bad employees are are indicative of bad management, not good unions.

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Pity the underpaid New Jersey Police� [View all] Jackpine Radical Apr 2014 OP

Police 'unions' are there to protect bad cops. Cops should never whine. nt Logical Apr 2014 #1

Sounds just like the right wing mantra that unions are there to protect bad employees Major Nikon Apr 2014 #4

I do not consider the police union like the auto workers union. What a joke. nt Logical Apr 2014 #6

The law does and last I checked that's what counts Major Nikon Apr 2014 #9

That's Logical Boom Sound 416 Apr 2014 #10

Anti democratic rhetoric Drahthaardogs Apr 2014 #39

HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!! WillyT Apr 2014 #2

Right JJChambers Apr 2014 #3

If they continue acting like soldiers they should get paid like our soldiers DJ13 Apr 2014 #5

The underpaid soldier thing is a myth NobodyHere Apr 2014 #19

A pretty good one too Major Nikon Apr 2014 #22

I've been in the military NobodyHere Apr 2014 #23

10 years for me Major Nikon Apr 2014 #24

When did you serve? NobodyHere Apr 2014 #25

Hogwash Major Nikon Apr 2014 #26

Yet soldiers make more than most civilians... NobodyHere Apr 2014 #27

...according to the military Major Nikon Apr 2014 #29

Again... NobodyHere Apr 2014 #31

More than most civilians tazkcmo Apr 2014 #30

Do you include BAH and BAS? NobodyHere Apr 2014 #32

No I didn't. tazkcmo Apr 2014 #36

In the meantime my local cops are the lowest paid in the county nadinbrzezinski Apr 2014 #7

All sorts of cops get paid shit wages Major Nikon Apr 2014 #12

Well, why I went and pointed it out nadinbrzezinski Apr 2014 #13

The lowest paid in the county? pintobean Apr 2014 #14

Honolulu PD just got a 17% raise and they have other "Ways" of making $$ off taxpayers nt msongs Apr 2014 #15

I just remember the traffic stop nadinbrzezinski Apr 2014 #35

Best cops money can buy RobertEarl Apr 2014 #8

I think it would be fair Boom Sound 416 Apr 2014 #11

Neither is NYC,but the NYPD earns less than Nassau or Suffolk. virgogal Apr 2014 #16

That's a fair point. Boom Sound 416 Apr 2014 #17

Cops here are low paid madville Apr 2014 #18

28k tazkcmo Apr 2014 #37

I wouldn't want to live anywhere madville Apr 2014 #38

Police are now paramilitary, NSA, FBI, TSA, DHS, CIA, ATF it just goes on and on and on and on pragmatic_dem Apr 2014 #20

I don't begrudge any working person a good salary. Kingofalldems Apr 2014 #21

No wonder they are in such fear for their lives! shanemcg Apr 2014 #28

Perhaps the high salaries are a function of fear of people of color? hedgehog Apr 2014 #33

�or just rich people wanting a well-paid Praetorian Guard Jackpine Radical Apr 2014 #34

Your enforcers wont turn against you when you pay them like private personal security... Drew Richards Apr 2014 #40