Union
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Where did the word 'Union' come from?
The word 'union,' in the sense of a 'labor union,' has a most interesting origin.
Its first known usage was in reference to a band of ne'er-do-well field hands in the East Suffolk Broads about 1762. But it was not pronounced as it is today.
Sounding more like 'onion,' the term was applied because of the field hands' skill at avoiding the labor they were hired to do. Whenever there was hard work in the offing, these 'onionists' would begin clamoring to go to the adjoining field to take a leek.
The term quickly won widespread acceptance and beame a source of endless mockery and derision. Humiliated, the early onionists worked desperately to erase the moniker but it stuck like glue.
About 1797, however, they perfected and bankrolled a scheme where, working in concert with Smythe-Scrimshaw (one of London's largest lexicograpical publishers), they managed to change the accepted pronunciation to what it is today.
Their plan took some seven years to unfold and was far too complicated to explain here but history records they finally brought an end to popular knowledge of their earliest and most favored pursuits.
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Lazy American workers who, through their association with the mafia and south american drug cartels, claim they have the
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The only reason a person with no college education or skills can earn an hour for unskilled labor while sitting around and doing nothing, showing up for work late or drunk, calling in sick half the time and without concern for punishment, taking a very long lunch and like 5 breaks, and getting most holidays off while having the audacity to complain and demand more from his company and go on strike about his company’s alleged “unfair” working conditions. The only thing that would be “fair” is for the company to kick the union and its lazy employees like this to the curb and replace them with hardworking people who would be grateful to have such high pay and benefits for unskilled work.
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A black hole that you're forced to throw money into if you belong to one. One never really knows where it all ends up, and no one may never will.
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an association that uses thuggery, hooliganism, bribery and blackmail to get the wage level raised above its true value for lazy workers
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The reason why my job is going to India.
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A smoke break from work.
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Unions were designed to help workers and they did. Lives and working conditions for the workers improved. But the power of the unions got out of control as they took control of the government and made laws. Now the government denies a struggling businessman the right to try to get his business out of financial difficulty by cutting workers or their wages. Telliong people how to run their lives, sounds like fascism. Apparently unions think they have the right to a job and because of that the businesses will go out of business and everyone will be out of work.
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group of people who take breaks and several lunches throughout the day.
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Adverb: An 'intensifier' adverb used to show extreme negative.
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[Labor unions] suck...all they do is hurt themselves (not getting payed and freezing their asses off striking after [collective bargaining] fails)...they also hurt the consumer by giving them one less option in purchasing decisions...and hurt the firm by making them looose all their money and eventuallty they run out and cant pay the fucking union people
ALL [LABOR UNIONS] DO IS CAUSE INFLATION IN THE US ECONOMY AND SIT ON THE ASS EATING A FUCKING SANDWITCH TELLING PEOPLE TO WORK SLOWER BECAUSE THEIR FUCKING FAGS WHO NEED TO BE ARRESTED...FUCK THAT BITH -
The action of joining together or the fact of being joined together, especially in a political context.
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