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Originally Posted by omro
I'm aware that it's a Union, however how this Union operates is totally alien to me. Iin the UK, a Union is there merely to represent the interests of it's members, nothing more.
This Union acts worse than any greedy private commercial property owner/building contractor and somehow gets away with it.
Surely even a Union such as this is responsible to someone or something.
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My Grandfather was a member of LIUNA along with a ton of the other Irish immigrant construction laborers in Hamilton who came over in the early 1950's. From what I can remember, he did speak of them in a positive way. He had a decent pension and medical benefits until he passed away in '97 and he was retired for more than 20 years. I guess the money had to come from somewhere.