A Teamsters local in Oakland, Calif., protested Mills
College's use of goats to clear brush on its land. Since
the union has a contract with Mills, a Teamsters official
said the college should either replace the goats with its
members, or unionize the goats.
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"Unionized Workers"
A fellow stopped at some Southern state gas station
and, after filling his tank, he paid the bill and bought
soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola and
he watched a couple of men working along the
roadside. One man would dig a hole two or three feet
deep and then move on. The other man came along
behind and filled in the hole. While one was digging
a new hole, the other was about 25 feet behind filling
in the old.
"Hold it, hold it," he said to the men. "Can you tell me
what's going on here with this digging?"
"Well, we're union, and we work for the state," one of the
men said.
"But one of you is digging a hole and the other fills it up.
You're not accomplishing anything. Aren't you wasting
the county's money?"
"You don't understand, mister," one of the men said,
leaning on his shovel and wiping his brow. "Normally,
there's three of us--me, Rodney and Mike. I dig the
hole, Rodney sticks in the tree, and Mike here puts
the dirt back. Union says that just because Rodney's
sick, that don't mean that Mike and me shouldn't work!"
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"Union Starting Time"
A man was being interviewed for a job.
"Were you in the service?" asked the interviewer.
"Yes, I was a marine", responded the applicant.
"Did you see any active duty?"
"I was in Vietnam for 2 years and I have a partial
disability."
"May I ask what happened?"
"Well, I had a grenade go off between my legs, I lost
both testicles."
"You?re hired. You can start Monday at 10:00 AM."
"When does everyone else start? I don't want any
preferential treatment because of my disability."
"Everyone else starts at 7 am but I might as well be
honest with you. Nothing gets done between 7 and 10.
We just sit around scratching our balls trying to decide
what to do first."