Aghh i love union stories there funny shit,
One day a family friend who is a labourer, there was no cups in on the site so they stopped it for 3hrs, Fair enough no cups takes like 10min to down to the super market and buy cups which only takes 1 person, they shut down the whole site for 3 f**kIN HOURS.
ANother was the union rep rang my old man and goes what time are bring down the beers and he goes what beer? The union guy goes the beer for our BBQ where having here, Old man told him to go fck him self. They ahve BBQ';s everyweek and the except the companies to foot the bill for food and beer.
Another was on one of our recent sites the SS and i think head UNion rep of the site, had cause soo much head aches and stopped sooo much work that the site was 3months behind, but they couldnt fire him cause the Union would arch up and close the site, so they gave him the job of just walking around the site, he got paid to do nothing for the next 4 months.
Not all people in the unions are bad but alot of seniors are shocking, Another example the big union march awhile ago, i know of 6-7 SS and and site mangers that skipped the march and went to the pub and got pissed. Some representative group eh?