And folks wonder why Unions get such a bad rap

[Plane]

Union officials on the scene are shop stewards , and they do not order work for the company, they don't even tell you that your break is over.

[BT]

Union officials on the scene are shop stewards , and they do not order work for the company, they don't even tell you that your break is over.

So the job supervisor would not necessarily be a union leader? Could just be a member running a crew?

[Plane]

Union officials on the scene are shop stewards , and they do not order work for the company, they don't even tell you that your break is over.

So the job supervisor would not necessarily be a union leader? Could just be a member running a crew?

Generally management doesnt join the union.

Was this a contractor or was the union itself setting up the event?

The work leader could be union if this was a union event , otherwise foremen are representing the management.

[BT]

My guess is the event organizers (University of Southern California?) contracted directly with the union to get the stage built. Wonder what the bid process looked like. I know Locals have their own business units that compete for contracts. So this may be a hybrid, where regulations require union wages and the Local competes against private enterprise for the available work.

[Plane]

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-bush-t-shirt,0,7529887.story


Looks as if it was a Union affair if I understand this article aright.

[BT]

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-bush-t-shirt,0,7529887.story


Looks as if it was a Union affair if I understand this article aright.

At about 10 a.m. on Friday, Frank Jenkins, a first-grader from Tom Bradley Elementary Magnet School, arrived at USC to see the president speak.

?I wanna see Obama,? seven-year-old Frank said. ?I never saw Obama.?

Frank ? who said he thought Obama would be better to watch in person than on television ?because you get to see him? ? was one of 40 students from Bradley who attended the ?Moving America Forward? rally, which was organized by the Democratic National Committee and hosted by USC?s Student Political Assembly.

http://dailytrojan.com/2010/10/22/students-visitors-flock-to-campus-for-obama/

[Plane]

  Yes ,but they had the union itself provide the stagehands, so the supervisor might have been a union official,rather than management from a contractor, this never happens where I work.

[BT]

  Yes ,but they had the union itself provide the stagehands, so the supervisor might have been a union official,rather than management from a contractor, this never happens where I work.

I guess the task at hand would be to define union official.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I would think that a union official would be anyone who holds a union office. Most of these are determined by a vote of the members.