Comments on: Unions Kill NYC’s Cafe Des Artistes

By: neocon mom

neocon mom — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:07:59 +0000

I’m using this simile from now on, with credit to you of course, CG.

By: DGA

DGA — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:46:13 +0000

Exactly Colonel, I’ll only take subcontractors, never employees. The federal government has made it too difficult to hire small amounts of employees, the paperwork alone sends you running to yet more accountants, or try to do it yourself and get no real work actually done. The money saved is better put into performance bonuses for the subs anyway.

By: bousquem

bousquem — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:29:48 +0000

The union seemed to be greedy enough that now a bunch of their workers are now out of jobs. That is real great work the union did there, they push so much and claim to protect their members but now 50 odd people are going to be joining the unemployment lines and living off the goverment.

By: Colonel1961

Colonel1961 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:17:49 +0000

When a union demands more of a business than it can support and remain viable, they are guilty of extortion. People who can’t see that are tools of the left or naive idealists. Either way, they serve no purpose in a productive society; in fact the opposite – they contribute to its downfall…

I feel sorry for the owners who were forced to invest additional monies of their own to keep these ingrates employed and the union thugs paid off.

Once again, another reason that I’ll never hire an employee. One of my consulting firms has plenty of work and could easily take on a junior level employee to train and send down the road to a very fine career, but there is no way in hell that I (we) will jump through the grotesque hoops required to hire, maintain – and God forbid – perhaps have to fire one. And the sad part is there is some fine, ambitious, young person out there who would benefit tremendously. But the villain is not me (us) it’s our imperious Federal government (and state, too) that make growth a pain in the rear.

Reducing most folks back to serfs is the goal. They’ll have to come through me, though, to make it happen…

By: VMAN

VMAN — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:39:19 +0000

Unreasonable demands by unions are not bills but extortion.

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:31:15 +0000

Our Bias is showing?

I beg to differ ……… GM and Chrysler are only the tip of the gubbamint step in to bail out union companies that were too big to fail.
Unions are leeches and care not one iota about the “rank and file”. I know all to well as I was one of the “bros” until reverse discrimination reared its’ ugly head and I lost my job to it. They sure looked out for me alright!

By: caligirl9

caligirl9 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:03:18 +0000

Unions are like cancer. Eventually they kill their hosts …

By: proreason

proreason — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:45:54 +0000

What bias, exactly, is showing?

GMAC and Chrysler also promised to pay their bills.

Perhaps the bias that is showing is the one against a single stakeholder in an enterprise demanding that all benefits accrue to itself, regardless of the impact on the viability of the enterprise.

Or in simpler language, you know, it’s a bias against sawing off the branch of the tree you are standing on.

Or even simpler, it’s a bias against fools.

By: Anad

Anad — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:37:05 +0000

Ummm. Your bias is showing!
Re-read the NYT article. It says the restaurant could no longer pay its bills. Among them, the owners had promised to help pay for health coverage for their employees, like most employers in the USA do. It’s a shame when any business closes, but all businesses, unionized or not, go out of business when they can’t pay their bills.

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:33:22 +0000

Ah So ……….. The Union of Disunion!

By: BillK

BillK — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:38:32 +0000

As with Mercury Marine in Wisconsin and, well, most every other news story involving labor unions has shown, they would much rather their members be unemployed.

It doesn’t hurt the union leaders one bit, and the rank and file have been brainwashed to believe their unemployment is due to the greedy business owners rather than that of the union leaders, who invariably get kicked upstairs to union headquarters and a six figure salary after the business closes for helping to “strengthen the union.”

I’ve seen it time and time again since at least the mid-1980s.

By: MinnesotaRush

MinnesotaRush — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:19:08 +0000

Well said, PR .. well said! Representative, as well, of some longstanding thoughts and sentiments I personally have for most of those unions and their bosses.

Why is it the union bigshots are always plus size guys who smoke great cigars and drive big, fancy cars? Just wonderin’, ya know.

By: proreason

proreason — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:09:17 +0000

Should the march to fascism continue, it’s inevitable the unholy alliances that make it possible will turn on each other. Like Madame Thatcher said, there is only so much money out there, so as one batch of criminals drains the resources of responsible citizens, they will inevitably turn their attention to the cesspools of their allies.

I’m assuming that the owners of Le Cafe Des Artistes are knee-jerk liberals. If so, they got what they deserve…as did the greedy snakes in the Union.

The only parties left standing as the statists build the moats around their thrones are the statists themselves and their sychopahants that cling precariously to favor. 99.99% of the people live like serfs.

That’s what its all about, Alfie.