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Post by rmcalhoun on Feb 19, 2024 21:30:28 GMT -6
Ball state where its badketball season and we are talking unions lol
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Post by david75bsu on Feb 19, 2024 21:54:39 GMT -6
Unions destroyed Muncie. My dad worked at Warner Gear and retired in the early seventies. There was a time when unions served a good purpose. Starting in the mid 60’s that purpose had disappeared. My dad complained about young men coming to Warner Gear in the sixties, all the wanted was their checks. The didn’t care about the quality of the parts coming off the line. The union did nothing to stop this type of crap. My son-in-law worked at the Lordstown GM plant in Warren/Youngstown , Ohio. Same thing, the people on the line would be watching tv on their smart phones as cars went down the line. They had to rent sites to park cars that didn’t work correctly as they came off the line. That plant is now closed. Many American workers got lazy and fat! Is it any wonder that lots of manufacturing went off shore. Sorry, unions destroyed American manufacturing. Unions and the demise of the auto industry due first to foreign competition, then to non union workers in new plants in the South. By the 90's and early 2000's unions were working pretty closely to make sure workers worked. Union activity was about benefits, job retention, not wages and things were changing. Not good for Muncie factory workers, but on the other hand many jobs nation wide were lost in all domestic industry due to automation, those old factories like Warner Gear were just not efficient.
It wasn't just the supply side. Demand changed drastically in the auto industry. Consumers don't buy a new car every two or three years now... By the seventies unions pretty much lost there purpose. They began to protect lazy non-workers. It happened at 2arner Hear, at the Chevy plant in Warren, at the steel mills, and many other places. Heard it first hand from WORKERS who understood the importance of work ethic and pride in what they produced and fellow employees were supposed to help build. When unions began protecting slackers, that’s when unions failed America. |
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Post by david75bsu on Feb 19, 2024 21:58:51 GMT -6
Ball state where its badketball season and we are talking unions lol If we had a winning team, we would be talking basketball! I’m a glutton for punishment and will continue watching men’s basketball. For relief, I’ll watch the ladies play - they are good!!! Also, the coach doesn’t make excuses about the MAC/Sunbelt Challenge. I found this exciting. Loved the format of matching equal strength teams against each other. Gave us a chance to see how we matched up against non-conferences teams. This should be celebrated. |
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Post by villagepub on Feb 19, 2024 22:05:03 GMT -6
Ball state where its badketball season and we are talking unions lol Typical OTP tangent |
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Post by CallingBS on Feb 20, 2024 8:13:38 GMT -6
Seems to me that under the NLRB ruling the marching band and cheerleaders/Code Red dancers would definitely qualify. The NLRB is a dangerous and distructive political creature that needs deep sixed like most of the Federal bureaucracy that has created a system of self serving assholes who feel they know what’s best for me and you. Sorry to rant, but government needs to get the hell out of our lives - it’s destroying the fabric of American life! They weren’t elected, but they are in control. Hope this doesn’t get me kicked off the board - this rant is officially over, just had to get it off my chest. 100% |
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Post by realitycheck on Feb 20, 2024 11:51:07 GMT -6
Why hasn't UJ created a gameday thread for NIU yet? C'mon UJ you've set the bar.
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Post by williamtsherman on Feb 20, 2024 13:58:21 GMT -6
Yeah. Where I'm I supposed to record all my sarcasm and juvenile humor associated with the Northern game?
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Post by cardfan on Feb 20, 2024 20:10:34 GMT -6
Ball state where its badketball season and we are talking unions lol Robbo, in his usual accidentally glorious fashion has actually boiled our program down to its essence — BADKETBALL. |
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Post by Hoopsmith on Feb 20, 2024 21:35:17 GMT -6
Ball state where its badketball season and we are talking unions lol Robbo, in his usual accidentally glorious fashion has actually boiled our program down to its essence — BADKETBALL. Beat me to it.... post of the century. |
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Post by rmcalhoun on Feb 21, 2024 0:21:49 GMT -6
Even my typos are legendary... Badketball damn its always been right there for the using too lol
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Post by rgmillikan on Feb 26, 2024 5:56:24 GMT -6
Nice guy though he may be, I hope the BSU administration has reflected on how they wasted nearly an entire decade leaving the program in his hands when he never came within a million miles of winning the MAC and wouldn't have if he coached here four more decades. Somehow I doubt they engage in such reflection. Instead they are probably satisfied with their excuses (as conveniently listed here by their faithful toady, 00) and secure in the knowledge that they followed the conventional wisdom at every step. The BSU administration: too incompetent to hire good coaches and too indifferent to fire bad ones. That last statement sums up the last 22 or so seasons. |
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