Comments on: Union attempts to strong arm Meathead Movers

By: pugpresley

pugpresley — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:02:52 +0000

The fact of who the picketers are is scandalous. This happened at circuit city in SLO a couple yrs, ago. the guys picketing where non union bums. As a construction union member I was appalled.

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By: walk the talk

walk the talk — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:06:00 +0000

Meathead movers is insured because the State made them do it. They ran under the radar for YEARS w/o workmens comp, then got invited to all the business forums big successes.

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By: smartypants

smartypants — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:38:00 +0000

When Meathead was fairly young they took me for a pretty good ride on moving fees. Promised a refund that I never got.

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By: ready2retire

ready2retire — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:32:02 +0000

first off, i would like to state that i strongly believe in the good that unions have provided to us working class – with that said, however, i cannot tolerate the abuse that an out of area union comes in with, having the audacity to hire “scab” (non-union) picketers – there are plenty of unemployed union members that could be out on that line – however, this out of the area union probably does not want to pay union wages – ironic, isn’t it ?

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By: seekingtruth

seekingtruth — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:41:12 +0000

Who knows the rest of the story. Maybe the union boss received an outrageous bill from Meathead and he is just trying to recoup some of his money. Aaron and Evan Steed have worked hard and they deserve the business they have created, but alone the way they seem to have forgotten it was the little man that made them millionaires. Perhaps this is a wakeup call for all involved. Nice story. Now the union can go back to L. A. and take their Pickett signs with them.

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By: zaphod

zaphod — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:55:02 +0000

I was a union member for years, I had full medical,dental, vacation, sick time ; for about thirty five dollars a month.

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By: cheseburger

cheseburger — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:54:45 +0000

Come on now booty, it’s the Chese, we can’t go there, I am going to redeem you as a proficient and competent writer! I know you are angry like me, but, to create a good ending to this nightmare, we need to stick it out together, I have faith in you! You have so many good points do not let them categorize you! Bootyjuice some of us can completely relate to your rants.

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By: cheseburger

cheseburger — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:10:47 +0000

Hey they got rich, so now so one has to bitch, at least they didn’t steal their money, Unions want a share, loved the part about how they hired non -union help to pickit! Kind of sums it up if you have a brain, go booty!

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By: zaphod

zaphod — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:37:13 +0000

Obama is the leader of a really big Union dude, you are probably a member, better check your facebook page ;-D

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By: BigScurv

BigScurv — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:37:55 +0000

I must say that both Aaron and Evan are strong Obama supporters (see facebook page). You can’t have it both ways boys. You want the benefits of a free market to successfully run your business, yet you supported the biggest road block to Capitalism in the history of our country. I think it’s funny and ironic that this “union” is giving you trouble.

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By: bobfromsanluis

bobfromsanluis — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:35:01 +0000

I have never done business with Meathead Movers, and I was a union employee for over thirty years; what this union is doing is flat wrong, period. Many unions have had multiple problems over the years with corruption, that is for sure; but to denigrate all unions based on this one sorry example does no one any good, unless it makes you happy to crap all over working men and women. The true fact about unions and what they have provided over the years cannot be illustrated by the examples provided here, either the jist of this article, or the lame link provided by booty juice to a right wing crank. I will not argue that some of the unions that the government workers belong to have become too strong, but, once again, these two examples are not the norm for what unions can provide. I think that Meathead Movers should buy their own banner and refute the banner that this rogue union has attempted to slander them with. If anyone wants to continue to bash unions just because they think it is the right thing to do, please remember that over the past thirty years when most every corporation has had many leaps and bounds in profitability, while CEOs have seen their salaries increase 200 to 2000 percent (or more), the average salary for most workers have not even kept pace with inflation, so in reality, most workers have less buying power, and most families have to be two income families. The action of this one union disgusts me, period, and all though Meathead Movers may have their detractors, they do not deserve this slander.

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By: moderator

moderator — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:37:36 +0000

religion/political remark removed

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By: SensitiveGuy

SensitiveGuy — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:20:57 +0000

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By: Smacks Forehead

Smacks Forehead — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:13:31 +0000

We have laws to protect employees. Unions were relevant when there were no laws protecting employees. Unions succeeded in creating a safe fair work place, everyone thanks them, now it it time for them to disband. They are like a rouge army out looking for a war. The war is over but no one told them.

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By: Smacks Forehead

Smacks Forehead — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:06:17 +0000

“union-skrotes” – lol.

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By: Booty JuJu

Booty JuJu — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:53:36 +0000

Think unions aren’t sh*tting in your face and bankrupting the entire state? Think again.

http://www.city-journal.org/2009/eon1123sg.html

They openly laugh.

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By: DeepBlueSLO

DeepBlueSLO — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:15:18 +0000

In many ways I feel for the Meatheads. It would truly suck to have your business picketed due to the refusal to accept a bid and I will definitely not be using any contractor from UBC Local 150 – ever. What is this, New Jersey?

On the other hand, I used the Meatheads back in 2007, and vowed to never use them again because of a pricing dispute. I suppose what goes around comes around.

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By: racket

racket — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:48:52 +0000

Glad to hear all that.

But we are losing to the union-skrotes by making this conversation at all about Meathead. This conversation needs to remain on how underhanded/lazy/conniving/inappropriate the union is. If you let them change the conversation to smearing/defending the victims of union bullying, then the union has already won.

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By: Booty JuJu

Booty JuJu — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:51:53 +0000

Moving your sh*t from point A to point B is a wholly price-dependant activity unless the cuteness factor blows your skirt up. I’d use Chinese slave labor if it saved a buck, as would their 25 million political prisoners were they not chained to a metal cot with car batteries attached to their gnads.

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By: beloved one

beloved one — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:37:29 +0000

I used Meathead Movers to move twice within San Luis and then once more to move to Orange County. All three times, the not-to-exceed price that I received from them during the estimate was higher than the other bids. However, the first time I chose them because they are licensed, insured, and they have trained employees and weren’t using underpaid immigrant day labor like the other movers in town. The next two times, I went with them because of my initial experience: the movers are polite, cute, well-trained, careful, and fast. And because the guys ran when going back to the truck to get more of my stuff, the bill at the end of the day was lower than I expected. And even if the bill was the same as the top range of the estimate, I am one of those who beleives you get what you pay for (like shopping at Nordstrom vs. Big Lots). I never experienced the moving nightmares that you hear about from friends and on 20/20.
Throughout all three moves, I was blown away by the professionalism of every single employee at this impressive local company. The owner himself did two of my estimates, and I almost wonder if MccDave really got an estimate, because the process was professional, polite, and thorough. Nothing overly salesy.
It is ridiculous that even two young guys working hard and employing dozens of other young men and women are being attacked when they are paying for a project that is putting dozens more people in the building trades to work in a recession. AND, as many others here have mentioned, the picketers aren’t even union! Too ironic.

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