What I don't understand is why you don't see the obvious downsides of unions. The small cost to my paycheck is nothing. However the focus on seniority over objective who is better at their job, and refusing to allow tracking metrics (I legally probably shouldn't even say that much about the contract I'm thinking of: to those who want evidence I'm not allowed to give it) about he is better has always bothered me.
The union is not the only thing standing between me and the CEO. I can find a new job. I have done it before. Overall I find my company treats me well - not perfect, but better than other places I've worked. My power to walk away and find a new job gives me a lot more power than the union would. (in fact in many unions I'd have less power because then I'd be required to work only for that union and so if the union has a mod boss I can't do anything about it)
I am not legally a professional engineer. However I do have a degree from my universities school of engineering. I could go through the paperwork to get that professional engineer certification, it just hasn't been a useful thing for me to do. (professional engineer doesn't really cover computer science topics even though my code can kill just as much as a bridge collapsing could kill)
I've been in offices where I was told look for the union guy before plugging my network cable, don't do it when he was looking.
There is a constant stream of hate on corporate management here, most of it without any evidence given. I want some evidence in return. Not that it exists, but that it is anywhere near as bad as people are saying.
Perfect evidence here. People in unions refuse to acknowledge all the problems outsiders have with unions. My observations are just invalid and insulted.
I'm not in a union. Once in a while unions try to convince me I should organize, but everything I see says if I vote to organize it will not be a new union that I could have power in. Instead I will be forced into one of the large existing unions that I will be a tiny player in and unable to get a high leadership position in.
Besides, I'm an engineer. I can lead people, but that isn't what I want to do. Thus even if I could run for a leadership position I find that a thankless job that I don't want. I have only so much time on earth and so I have to choose what I spend my time on.
Unions have earned their bad reputation in the US. Union management is more evil that corporate management, and corporate management is not very good.
Yes corporate management isn't always good, but they are not nearly as bad as union management makes them out to be. Meanwhile I've seen the sillyness that unions enforce (I can't plug in a network cable - that is a union job) and I want nothing to do with them. Unions need to clean up their own act before trying to get me to join. I'm not against unions, but the way they work in the US I'm very against. Start looking in the mirror and seeing what the real world is like and not your strawman vision of what you think my issues are!
Unions in other countries work very different. If you live in Europe, you have no idea what unions in the US are like, so stop.
I have dual 800 CCA batteries (which my mechanic just measured at 680 each). The engine is a 7.3 liter diesel though (best engine Ford ever had according to many), and it needs a lot of power to turn over cold. I drove it about 2000 miles last year - I bike most places but sometimes I need to drive and a few of those trips need a truck.
Wired USB. If I get some time I'm going to put PS/2 or maybe ADB in it as well just for the fun of it.
(Just in case this is a serious question to someone, 60% refers to the keyboard size, indicating what buttons I have and don't have compared to a normal keyboard)
Like you I find value in discussions here overall. However there is a lot to not like. and sometimes I just have to laugh at how bad the echo chamber is. And other times at how unwilling people are to admit how bad the echo chamber is.
There are a lot who left the republican party to make that happen and they want back in. (maybe not the republican party, they are looking at other third parties, but the democrats are not doing anything to make this group welcome. There are also a lot who don't like Trump, but are hoping that if they stand a few years of him the Trump years will pass and they will bring the party back to what they want. Right now if you are a republican you have to at least give public lip service to Trump - this makes it hard to tell who really is for Trump and who is riding this wave out.
I have a 60% bluetooth keyboard that I'll use when I need to type on my phone. A pain to carry with me, but taking a whole laptop is sometimes even worse.
I have a battery disconnect on my truck because I rarely drive it and it would discharge the batteries (it didn't discharge the near as fast batteries until I put the trailer brake controller in so I know part of the cause). A trickle charger will help, but they have a tendency to declare a fault after a few days and stop charging: leaving you with a dead battery anyway. Still a trickle charger is a good idea as batteries don't like being discharged, just remember to check on it every few days. It is possible the draw is larger than the trickle charger can provide and that is why it doesn't work - I wouldn't know.
I have a JNC660 jump starter battery pack which I keep warm in the house. Others tell me this is the way to go (I just bought it so I can't say how it works). Some li-ion battery packs have a jump starter function - I have mixed results with them (It worked for me once, the next time I got a good crank but it cut out before the engine started).
Local news is dead. There are still local newspapers, but they are all just the same national and your state news with your neighborhood on the cover. Well they will publish the city and school board meeting notices, and the minutes, but nothing useful. ("after debated approved plan to X" - what where the points debated is never mentioned). No wonder such newspapers are dieing - they are not producing anything of value.
The first should be solved by a subscription so you don't feel like you need cash all the time. The second is incompetience - never allow more than one broken machine, if machines are not reliable find a better vender - in court you can end the contract early if they are not filling their end: making machines that work. (If this isn't in your contract sue your own lawyers for incompetence)
i agree teens shouldn't have to pay. Though I would put it in terms of they ride free on their parents subscription which helps get parents riding since they are paying for it.
there are also poor who need some sort of program as sell.
Then raise fares. This study makes it clear that more service is what people want. That fares are so low they are not bringing in money after collection costs is a sign they need to raise them.
Fare collection typically generates a subtantial amount of revenue and so you assumption that it doesn't fails.
for most people a fare such that busy routes are profitable is perfectly reasonable and they will pay.That makes your subsidy for less but routes that are still worth having (in part because they feed to the busy route which wouldn't be profitable without those riders).
as this study has found most people value service higher than the cost of a fare. Free fare advocates are killing the system by taking away a source of revenue that could instead be usedeto make the system better.
i'm all for helping the poor. Target just the poor with free fares. That lets you help the poor by giving them good service instead of service for the poor but 'normal' people drive*
What I don't understand is why you don't see the obvious downsides of unions. The small cost to my paycheck is nothing. However the focus on seniority over objective who is better at their job, and refusing to allow tracking metrics (I legally probably shouldn't even say that much about the contract I'm thinking of: to those who want evidence I'm not allowed to give it) about he is better has always bothered me.
The union is not the only thing standing between me and the CEO. I can find a new job. I have done it before. Overall I find my company treats me well - not perfect, but better than other places I've worked. My power to walk away and find a new job gives me a lot more power than the union would. (in fact in many unions I'd have less power because then I'd be required to work only for that union and so if the union has a mod boss I can't do anything about it)