An Open Letter From Speaker Gerald Polley
God's Candidate For The Presidency Of The United States In 2,012
To The World

05-08-02 AJ

    People wonder why I side with The Republicans trying to keep the unions from taking over The FAA.  As I say, I am not anti union.  I am against forced unionism.  I would not be against the current procedure of a majority vote to establish a union in a workplace, as long as those who do not want to join the union are not forced to, that anyone being hired does not have to join the union in order to get a job.  Americans will not be slave labor to union bosses who stay in power by giving millions of dollars to The Democrats so they'll make everybody in the country join their unions and be forced to donate to The Democrats, or, lose their jobs.  It isn't gonna happen in America!  
    Let me tell you a little story. Many years ago back in my reckless youth, I was working for a very exclusive restaurant.  I won't say where, because the incident still embarrasses the owner.  One employee had been trying for years to get a union. He finally managed to convince the other employees to vote one in.  I made it clear, as soon as it was required to pay union dues I was done.  I would not pay a Mafia boss for my right to work.  The man who had organized the union kept begging me to stay,  telling me all the things that the union would provide. The union organizer kept getting in my face, too.  I told him in no uncertain terms where he could go.  
    They had this big gorilla with them who was on the verge of being a retard. No offense to retarded people, I've worked with a good many of them and they were excellent workers.  But this particular guy was absolutely useless and was only working there because he was part of the union crew.  One day he got right up in my face and said "Enough!  Shut up!  You're going to stay, you're going to join the union, and you're going to pay your dues. No more crap that you're leaving!  I heard the boss wants to put you in charge of some things.  The union will approve of it. Don't be an idiot!  You're staying!  And you're shutting up!"  I got right up in the guy's face and asked him if he was threatening me, remarking that nobody like him ever threatens me, to get out of my face and stay out of my face.  Because the next time he got in it he might not have one any more!  The big moron backed off, looked at me and went "Grrr!"  then screamed "It's no use!  This guy's brainless.  He's an idiot.  He doesn't understand anything.  We wouldn't want him anyway."
    The boss came out of the office screaming "That's enough!  You're the idiot!  You have no idea who you're messing with, what this man is capable of.  You're the God damned fool here!  If I had my way you'd be outta here for threatening people!"  "Whoa!  Whoa!" the union boss said, "You don't say things like that to my people!  He's trying to help this man.  He's got a right to express his opinion. We could benefit him greatly, but he's rejecting us.  We can't understand why.  He better not present any kind of a danger to my workers, or I will call the police!"  The boss laughed.  "I'd like to hear what they tell you!" he remarked.  
    I finished up working there and went to work someplace else.  Everybody there was always asking me to tell them the story.  Three months later I was walking by the old restaurant and saw it was closed.  I walked over and found a big, hand written sign in the window that said "Closing Due To Union Harassment."  I wondered what had happened but didn't see anybody that had worked there until several years later when I was in a store and heard somebody call my name.  I looked up and found it was the boss from that restaurant.  We talked for a few minutes about other things, then I asked him what happened.  
    "I caught an employee red handed stealing," the owner told me, "fired him. The next day he walks in and punches in. I told him he didn't work there any more.  The union boss came over, said "Yes he does. He's entitled to a grievance hearing. It's your word against his. Nobody else saw anything.   You just don't fire people because you feel like it!  There's a union now."  I said "That is it!  He's' outta here, now!  We do The Field's party at the end of the month.  I've done it for thirty years. The next day we close."  Everybody screamed "You  can't do that!"  The guy that had organized the union cried "I've worked here 20 years!  You can't just close the place!"  "Sure can!" the boss told him, "I own it!  There's no partnership or anything. I'm the straight owner. If I want to shut the doors, I'll shut the doors. You wanted a union, let them find you work someplace else."  The union screamed and hollered, even tried to take legal action.  But everybody said "He owns the business.  If he wants to close it he can close it."  I got a little place down the coast," my old boss told me, "too small for any union to bother with.  I'm perfectly happy!  Many friends come down to have their functions there every year and we reminisce about the old place, but God damn it, when I say somebody's fired, they're fired!  No idiot says I can't prove it when I catch 'em in the act!"  
    Several years after that I was working in a place that lost their kitchen manager.  The hotel manager came out one day showing a guy around.  I looked at him, he looked at me and said "Is that Gerald?" I said "It most certainly is!"  He reminded me who he was,  where we'd worked together, and I said "Oh, yeah, I remember."  The hotel manager looked at me strangely, showing the guy around a bit more, then left.  A few minutes later he returned, still carrying the guy's application.  
    "You know that guy, Gerald?" he asked.  "Doesn't look like you cared too much for him."  "Remember that story I told you?" I remarked, "About the union and the owner closing it down?  He's the one that organized the union. We're not exactly the best of friends."  "Oh!" the manager moaned, "That's him? Thank you!  Thank you very much!"  He tore up the application he was carrying and threw it in the trash can.  I guess he didn't want that kind of trouble in the hotel!  As I'm fond of saying, things come back around to those who try to force their wishes on other people.  It's too bad!  But this isn't the only incident that I had with unions.  That's why I'll always be with those people that don't particularly dislike them but would never joined one.  I'll never have anything to do with one.  If one takes over a place where I'm workin' I'll leave, I won't be a slave.  And anybody stupid enough to be one has my sympathy.
    As I say, don't get me wrong, unions do some good, and people have a right to have them.  But they have no right to force people to join them in order to have a job.  If the unions support us and understand us we'll get along just fine.  If they fight us, well, they'll know they've made an enemy!  I don't think they want that.  If people are unfair to me, I can be awfully unpleasant to them!  Because that's just the way I am!  Somebody gets in my face and says I have to do something I don't like it, and there's a lot of people like me!

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