Here's where your story falls apart. I never heard of an oiler on a milling machine. Also if your company is nonunion why did they have a guy from the union working there? Calling people names like "lazy" and "worthless" is a personal attack, it's not logic.
Obviously a trashed machine is evidence something went wrong somewhere. If Co-fire had good UNION operators maybe that equipment would have been in better shape?
By NO means am I calling local 14b in NYC "Lazy" or "worthless" as a whole but they had some members that did not keep up to standards. They shut me out this year when the owner of the company that got this Years DOT milling in NYC because they had so many guys sitting already. I had no problem with it due to the past they have pertaining to them giving out union books to ANYBODY they could find that had ANY experience on equipment because they were so jammed short for operators after the collapse of the twin towers. THAT may have been what lead to them having a few second rate people in the hall in the first place and THAT is what lead to the Fed's comming in and taking them over.
I had never heard of an oiler on a mill either but the union had to make sure they had an engineer on the site because they did NOT have a mill operator that could run a mill and get the required amount of work done in a day due to NOT having experience. The oiler WANTED to learn a mill, that local (Long Island 138) was PLEASED to have me showing him how it worked and things went quite well.
I appreciate this sites Founder (Steve) asking us to tone it down a bit. I in NO way wish to antagonize anyone. The results of the union/nonunion poll were interesting to me because I have worked in the south for so long were no operators union exist because in my opinion, down there they need it more then ever.
Last I checked here in America, a difference of opinion on things wasn't a crime or cause to get bent outta shape. Theres good and bad everywhere.
