The only time I had dealings with the union it cost me my job as well .AndrewQLD said:I have a trade Pete, and the only time I had dealings with a union cost me and my brothers our jobs and shut down the small factory I worked in, six weeks of strikes killed it for the owners and they opted to shut down,not saying unions haven't done good but I haven't directly experienced the awesome benefits of paying for them to look after the "battler".
Myself and another bloke were told " brother,you will join us or you lose your job "
" I am not your bother go get ****** ".
My then boss was told I we didn't join, his suppliers would be told not to supply him.
2 blokes out of a job.
End result ,to this day I have a deep loathing of unions.
But on a happier note the union goon went to another town,upset the wrong bloke and got the **** beaten out of him.Ahh justice
Cheers...spog...