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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Rogers" data-source="post: 801810" data-attributes="member: 60724"><p>Here is another union story for you.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Philadelphia is still a strong union town. The plumber's union in particular is very strong. When Comcast submitted plans for its new state-of-the-art Comcast center it included new, "no-flush" urinals. These urinals have no water in them. Installing them instead of traditional urinals means a LOT less work for plumbers.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The city's plumbers union boycotted. They wouldn't "sign off" on the building as planned. They extorted Comcast by stalling the start of construction, which couldn't start without union folks, and wouldn't start until some concessions were made for all the work/money that was avoided by these new urinals.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Comcast's back was broken by the unions, they conceded, and the concession was to include in the plans plumbing for all the urinals, just as if they were regular "water run" urinals, but for the water line to be capped off in the wall next to each urinal. In other words, the union extorted that Comcast pay them for labor and materials for extra work that was NOT needed and could not be used.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So, yeah, unions help their members...but Comcast is a great company to work for, and provides a lot of jobs. They didn't deserve, nor did their customers deserve to be exploited in this way.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>TJR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Rogers, post: 801810, member: 60724"] Here is another union story for you. Philadelphia is still a strong union town. The plumber's union in particular is very strong. When Comcast submitted plans for its new state-of-the-art Comcast center it included new, "no-flush" urinals. These urinals have no water in them. Installing them instead of traditional urinals means a LOT less work for plumbers. The city's plumbers union boycotted. They wouldn't "sign off" on the building as planned. They extorted Comcast by stalling the start of construction, which couldn't start without union folks, and wouldn't start until some concessions were made for all the work/money that was avoided by these new urinals. Comcast's back was broken by the unions, they conceded, and the concession was to include in the plans plumbing for all the urinals, just as if they were regular "water run" urinals, but for the water line to be capped off in the wall next to each urinal. In other words, the union extorted that Comcast pay them for labor and materials for extra work that was NOT needed and could not be used. So, yeah, unions help their members...but Comcast is a great company to work for, and provides a lot of jobs. They didn't deserve, nor did their customers deserve to be exploited in this way. TJR [/QUOTE]
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