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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mansons2005, post: 261399, member: 121&quot;]My family was involved in a number of businesses and there were union rules for just about everything in NY. And there was always a charge or fee of some sort involved. We even had to deal with a union sanctioned grave diggers strike for over a month once. Part of the union agreement was that no one but a union member could dig a hole in our cemeteries. There were so many coffins awaiting internment piling up that we had to close one funeral home just to store the coffins in. Because of course, there was a union rule that coffins containing remains could not be stored in a non-union site. </p><p><br /></p><p>There was a union rule involving the fire hydrants as well, one that is still in effect here in Chicago..............painting a fire hydrant REQUIRES 3 people (all getting paid) on site. A supervisor, a painter and a relief painter - to complete the job in the event the painter gets injured..................while painting a fire hydrant.............3 feet tall.....................</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a union &quot;rule&quot; in the garment workers that required five buttons and five button holes on the front of a man&#039;s shirt, NOT including the collar button.</p><p><br /></p><p>We had some issues with migrant workers as well, every fall. Even though our farms were leased to tenant farmers, we arranged for the migrant pickers and harvesters en masse, and there were some really ridiculous rules there as well, but the rules did not really benefit the workers, they were money machines for the union bosses. The baskets used to pick cherries and pears had to meet certain standards - set by, and incidentally sold by, the unions. There had to be a special union rep on hand to grade potatoes. One of our tenants raised nothing but Long Island ducks, and there were a bunch of rules attached to slaughtering them as well. And what a coincidence............the (paid) Rabbi that we had on site to over see the Kosher end of things was best friends with the (paid) State inspector AND the (paid) union rep who was on site during slaughtering season...........[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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