A Union Boss finds out that his bookkeeper has cheated him out of ten million bucks. His bookkeeper is deaf. That was the reason he got the job in the first place. It was assumed that a deaf bookkeeper would not hear anything that he might have to testify about in court.
When the Union Boss goes to confront the bookkeeper about his missing $10 million, he brings along the Union attorney, who knows sign language.
The Union Boss tells the lawyer, "Ask him where the 10 million bucks he embezzled from me is." The attorney, using sign language, asks the bookkeeper where the money is.
The bookkeeper signs back: "I don't know what you are talking about." The attorney tells the Union Boss: "He says he doesn't know what you're talking about."
The Union Boss pulls a Hoffa and out comes a pistol, puts it to the bookkeeper's temple and says, "Ask him again!"
The attorney signs to the bookkeeper: "He'll kill you if you don't tell him!" The bookkeeper signs back: "OK! You win! The money is in a brown briefcase, buried behind the shed in my cousin's backyard at Cleveland Heights!"
The Union Boss asks the attorney: "Well, what'd he say?" The attorney replies: "He says you don't have the balls to pull the trigger."
If you want jobs and fix our economy, get out from under the strangle hold of the public and private sector unions and allow Companies to bring profits from overseas tax free. Ohio voters just cooked their goose with issue 2. Like the old proverb says, The Stupid will always remain stupid!! Without dumb and stupid people, Labor Unions will eventually disappear!
lighteninggannie - A Ohio Commission study found that pay, benefits, promised pensions and a dollar value to job security meant public workers have a 43-percent compensation advantage over their private-sector counterparts.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the national wage-plus-benefits averages in June were $28.13 per hour in the private sector and $40.40 per hour in the public sector.
Instead of worrying about what Kasich and his staff gets, Look at the 350,000 union public workers cost the to Ohio tax payers if each of these public workers got a $1.00/hr raise. The cost of this raise to Ohio taxpayers will be $2,800,000.00/day and you are complaining about Kasich giving a few staffers $250,000/year in total raises.
I wonder about how many union jobs will be forfeited now!! The people spoke and made their choice. What is it worth, to have collecting bargaining, if you don't have a job?
This is another bailout for the Union Bosses and not the worker!!
Then you have Walter Philip Reuther, who was fired from The Ford Motor Co. because he was found sleeping on the job while his brother covered for him. He and his brother went to Europe and then worked 1933-35 in an auto plant at Gorky in the Soviet Union. Unhappy with the lack of political freedom in Russia, Reuther and his brother returned to the United States where he found employment at General Motors and became an active member of the United Automobile Workers (UAW). In 1936 Reuther became president of tiny local 174 (with 100 members), which on paper had responsibility for 100,000 auto workers on the west side of Detroit, Michigan. After applying his Socialist Party views to the members of the UAW, Reuther led several strikes in 1937 and 1940 against Ford and GM. In the late 40's, he joined forces with Gus Hall, a Communist Party leader in Youngstown. Known as an Union Organizer, he along with Gus Hall, won political power in the Democrat Party. Gus Hall's plan was to run for the US Presidency using their power they had in the USSW and UAW Unions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_A...
If Gus Hall won his bid for the Presidency today, the Democrat Party would be the USA Communist Party.
In addition, for your information, in 1977, China's steel production was a little over 8.0 million tons and the United States was the No. 1 steel producer in the world with over 200.0 million tons.....And for 2011, China's steel production was a little over 600.0 million tons making them the No. 1 steel producer in the world leaving the United States in 5th place with 90.0 million tons. FYI, China has old equipment and they don't have EPA regulations
I was there and you weren't. The Sheet & Tube invested in the tune of $2.0 million per furnace to keep down emissions. From 1972 to 1977, the total investment was over $50.0 million for emissions equipment but, the Democrats threw a monkey wrench in the works by changing the emission standards. I would say, this was the reason why the Sheet & Tube couldn't buy new equipment. To stay in business, the Sheet & Tube would have to rip out new equipment and replace with newer equipment to meet the new EPA standards and the investment would exceed the cost of building a completely new production facility.
The average labor's wage back then was around $12,000/yr and furnace operators averaged $30,000/yr. As a labor foreman in the 60's, I cleared over $1,000/mo. The checks you saw from your grandfather could have been subpay which was in addition to his hourly wage. Back in the 70's, a person who was above the averge wage scale, worked in a steelmill.
If a Steelworkers Local back then, could afford to give their Union President a new Cadillac to drive every year, wasn't hurting in collecting union dues from its members.
The demise of Youngstown's economy started with Gus Hall's Labor Unions and Jimmy Carter's 1977 EPA amendment to the 1972 EPA Act. With the first victim being the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Campbell Works and the 2nd victim, it's people!!
Mahoning Valley helps deep-six Issue 2
The deaf book-keeper
A Union Boss finds out that his bookkeeper has cheated him out of
ten million bucks. His bookkeeper is deaf. That was the reason he got
the job in the first place. It was assumed that a deaf bookkeeper would
not hear anything that he might have to testify about in court.
When the Union Boss goes to confront the bookkeeper about his missing $10 million, he brings along the Union attorney, who knows sign language.
The Union Boss tells the lawyer, "Ask him where the 10 million bucks he
embezzled from me is." The attorney, using sign language, asks the
bookkeeper where the money is.
The bookkeeper signs back: "I don't know what you are talking about."
The attorney tells the Union Boss: "He says he doesn't know what you're
talking about."
The Union Boss pulls a Hoffa and out comes a pistol, puts it to the bookkeeper's temple and says,
"Ask him again!"
The attorney signs to the bookkeeper: "He'll kill you if you don't tell him!" The bookkeeper signs back: "OK! You win!
The money is in a brown briefcase, buried behind the shed in my cousin's backyard at Cleveland Heights!"
The Union Boss asks the attorney: "Well, what'd he say?" The attorney replies: "He says you don't have the balls to pull the trigger."
Don't you just love lawyers?
November 18, 2011 at 1:46 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Tuesday's results serve as springboard for 2012
If you want jobs and fix our economy, get out from under the strangle hold of the public and private sector unions and allow Companies to bring profits from overseas tax free. Ohio voters just cooked their goose with issue 2. Like the old proverb says, The Stupid will always remain stupid!! Without dumb and stupid people, Labor Unions will eventually disappear!
November 10, 2011 at 12:22 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Mahoning Valley helps deep-six Issue 2
lighteninggannie - A Ohio Commission study found that pay, benefits, promised pensions and a dollar value to job security meant public workers have a 43-percent compensation advantage over their private-sector counterparts.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the national wage-plus-benefits averages in June were $28.13 per hour in the private sector and $40.40 per hour in the public sector.
Instead of worrying about what Kasich and his staff gets, Look at the 350,000 union public workers cost the to Ohio tax payers if each of these public workers got a $1.00/hr raise. The cost of this raise to Ohio taxpayers will be $2,800,000.00/day and you are complaining about Kasich giving a few staffers $250,000/year in total raises.
November 9, 2011 at 1:57 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Mahoning Valley helps deep-six Issue 2
I wonder about how many union jobs will be forfeited now!! The people spoke and made their choice.
What is it worth, to have collecting bargaining, if you don't have a job?
This is another bailout for the Union Bosses and not the worker!!
November 9, 2011 at 12:55 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Once a union metropolis, Valley sees that title fade
You're Right, rudy56. The Youngstown Unions were a product of Gus Hall's Communist Party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Hall
Then you have Walter Philip Reuther, who was fired from The Ford Motor Co. because he was found sleeping on the job while his brother covered for him. He and his brother went to Europe and then worked 1933-35 in an auto plant at Gorky in the Soviet Union. Unhappy with the lack of political freedom in Russia, Reuther and his brother returned to the United States where he found employment at General Motors and became an active member of the United Automobile Workers (UAW). In 1936 Reuther became president of tiny local 174 (with 100 members), which on paper had responsibility for 100,000 auto workers on the west side of Detroit, Michigan. After applying his Socialist Party views to the members of the UAW, Reuther led several strikes in 1937 and 1940 against Ford and GM. In the late 40's, he joined forces with Gus Hall, a Communist Party leader in Youngstown. Known as an Union Organizer, he along with Gus Hall, won political power in the Democrat Party. Gus Hall's plan was to run for the US Presidency using their power they had in the USSW and UAW Unions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_A...
If Gus Hall won his bid for the Presidency today, the Democrat Party would be the USA Communist Party.
November 6, 2011 at 9:56 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Oop81269
In addition, for your information, in 1977, China's steel production was a little over 8.0 million tons and the United States was the No. 1 steel producer in the world with over 200.0 million tons.....And for 2011, China's steel production was a little over 600.0 million tons making them the No. 1 steel producer in the world leaving the United States in 5th place with 90.0 million tons. FYI, China has old equipment and they don't have EPA regulations
November 4, 2011 at 12:54 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Oop81269
I was there and you weren't. The Sheet & Tube invested in the tune of $2.0 million per furnace to keep down emissions. From 1972 to 1977, the total investment was over $50.0 million for emissions equipment but, the Democrats threw a monkey wrench in the works by changing the emission standards. I would say, this was the reason why the Sheet & Tube couldn't buy new equipment. To stay in business, the Sheet & Tube would have to rip out new equipment and replace with newer equipment to meet the new EPA standards and the investment would exceed the cost of building a completely new production facility.
The average labor's wage back then was around $12,000/yr and furnace operators averaged $30,000/yr. As a labor foreman in the 60's, I cleared over $1,000/mo. The checks you saw from your grandfather could have been subpay which was in addition to his hourly wage. Back in the 70's, a person who was above the averge wage scale, worked in a steelmill.
If a Steelworkers Local back then, could afford to give their Union President a new Cadillac to drive every year, wasn't hurting in collecting union dues from its members.
November 4, 2011 at 12:34 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Youngstown leads nation with poverty rate of 49.7%
Archie Bunker on Democrats
http://youtu.be/7fqCS7Y_kME
Democrats never change.
November 3, 2011 at 11:34 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Youngstown leads nation with poverty rate of 49.7%
Youngstown voted for Obama and they got what they deserved, Nothing!!
http://youtu.be/0hrxj7mAOEI
November 3, 2011 at 12:03 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Youngstown leads nation with poverty rate of 49.7%
The demise of Youngstown's economy started with Gus Hall's Labor Unions and Jimmy Carter's 1977 EPA amendment to the 1972 EPA Act. With the first victim being the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Campbell Works and the 2nd victim, it's people!!
This is how I remembered the Campbell Works:
http://youtu.be/Ni4bwCfa-SU
November 3, 2011 at 11:42 a.m. permalink suggest removal