Re: Simplex wants Union workers to install there product

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Jul 17, 10:01=EF=BF=BDam, Frank Olson
<use_the_email_li...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jim Rojas wrote:
> > nick markowitz wrote:
> >> Have a contractor I do sub work for that has a large retirement
> >> village he handles and they like our work .
> >> We have been installing Simplex equiptment with no problems and it
> >> works great.
> >> Now al of a suden the rep for Simplex says they only want Union
> >> workers installing there products there. Needless to say the
> >> management told them No . It us or no one .
>
> >> Since when is its simplex buisness to say who installs ther stuff.
>
> > They have no right to make such demands. Only the AHJ can require that.
>
> > Jim Rojas
>
> In BC, the AHJ has no authority in the decision for a contractor (or
> owner) to use union or non-union workers. =EF=BF=BDThe owner has the opti=
on of
> inviting (and accepting) bids from union contractors only, however. =EF=
=BF=BDIt
> is, after all, HIS project.

Usually, (in my experience) the unions usually get involved when the
customer has a union shop. It's that union who, when seeing work done
for their employer, will try to get manufacturers, or who ever they
can, to "suggest" that only union contractors be allowed to do work at
the company. It depends upon the relationship between the employer and
his union people. If he hasn't lived up to their (usually outrageous)
demands they may try to give him a hard time in this regard.

I've been threatened with "my office"  being picketed because I was
doing alarm work in a small shop in a major shopping mall. I was
informed that any wires being pulled must be done by a union
electrician, even if the alarm guy had to stand by his side to tell
him what kind of wire, provide the wire and where to run it. In this
case, they were going to "allow" me to hook up the hardware and set up
the system as long as the shop owner "paid" (off) the Mall
electrician. While they were contacting the shop steward and the union
reps to get me ousted from the premises, I just continued working and
ran the wires and left. Next day, I expected big trouble but when I
got there no one happened to be there and I finished the job.
(although I had to do it with only lights coming in through the front
glass windows). I figured someone was going to sabotage the job, but
nothing happened for some reason.

When one of the irate union workers was threatening me with my
"workers and office and all of my jobs" being picketed, I asked him
how proud he felt in front of his family about making a career out of
being overpaid for doing little to nothing for a living and that he
was free to picket my house anytime he wanted to. I'd provide
sandwiches and soda. He seemed a little confused about what to do
about that.

It's really hard for me to imagine what kind of mentality these people
have about any sense of accomplishment in their lives. It's the same
mentality of those people who think the government should take care of
them from the time they're born till they die. They want no
responsibility for themselves. Just let someone else do the work to
sustain the infrastructure while they reap the benefits. No thoughts
about the drain on society and on those who actually produce more than
they consume.

Ayn Rand was a prophet first .... then a philosopher.