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rocco79 Wrote:By the way Pal... EVERYONE is asked to do more with less these days NOT just union workers. Everyone is being squezzed, expected to do more for less and faster! So i cant say as you tugged my heart strings too much with that. I am glad though that your strike is over.
I hear that...In the shop been really getting hit with flat-rate jobs that pay to little "time" for how long it actually takes. taking out a whole dash and replacing everything with a new one, 1.8 hours seems a little low. granted that's just random but an example of doing more faster for less. It's not easy.
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I can honestly understand both sides of the story. I see some union guys making tons of cash doing litterally nothing, But I also know a bunch of union guys who whole heartedly bust their ass! I for one wish I was union. I am an aluminum fabricater and welder for the largest over the road dry bulk plastic carrier in the world. Out of over 600 mechs for this company I am the one they bring the huge jobs too. I've had trailers come from cali to me on 1 axle just cause I am the one the owner wants doing the job. What am I worth in union pay. Evidently to a non union company I am only worth 18 bux an hour!
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yeah you could be making alot more if you were union. It'd be nice to find some place but right now the economy is hurting so it would be tough to change jobs. I know im looking into it and it's slim pickins
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IN a big situation like that if you have ever person on the workforce with a high-amount of skill. I think it would be harder to fire everyone and lose a ton of money while trying to replenish the staff. now a place like walmart? those workers are a dime a dozen...You I think you've probably got alot less to worry about. Funny, I remember walmart closing a store in canada because a union got voted in.
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that's why we have foremen, journeymen and apprentices. foremen make the most, because the job is on them. i have been a foreman since i got my card and when you have a multi million dollar job on your shoulders, its stressful. i just finished a job 2 weeks early. that's over $8000 in just labor earned for the company. not to mention being able to get on another job that much sooner before we get buried by other trades. i don't ask for any of that. i just want whats mine. and when they want to take $7 an hour away from my health and welfare, so there is only $1 an hour going in to it. that means i have to basically pay my own insurance. i don't think so.
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