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01-28-2010, 11:44 AM
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Yeah, Rob, & they made it look so EASY, too..That's the hard part...
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01-28-2010, 11:50 AM
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Congrats d-ray!
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01-28-2010, 12:05 PM
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It's funny how many people say it's the unions that make workers overpriced, when these amazingly skilled workers, after having several years of training to reach a high skill level, top out at around $100K, while those whose job is to move money around would consider that a mere pittance for their services.
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01-28-2010, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by d-ray657
It's funny how many people say it's the unions that make workers overpriced, when these amazingly skilled workers, after having several years of training to reach a high skill level, top out at around $100K, while those whose job is to move money around would consider that a mere pittance for their services.
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thank you
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01-28-2010, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by d-ray657
It's funny how many people say it's the unions that make workers overpriced, when these amazingly skilled workers, after having several years of training to reach a high skill level, top out at around $100K, while those whose job is to move money around would consider that a mere pittance for their services.
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Hear, hear!!!!!!!
It still drives me nut when people bitch about how lazy they are, as well. The most physically demanding job I ever had was a Union job, loading trucks, hand-stacking cases of canned goods.
My Pop went to work at the age of fourteen in a lumbercamp in Minnesota, and didn't retire until he was 68. And even then it was only because my mother goaded him into retirement. Through the years he worked in factories and steel mills, and was a union man for most of his career. And believe me you, he pushed us hard at home. As a teenager I sometimes hated him for it, but now I see how blessed I was to have him.
Dave
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01-28-2010, 01:03 PM
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It would be a little bit of a stretch (but only a little one) to say that unions built the industrial might of this country but it's absolutely true that union workers did. It's interesting that the decline in America's industrial power exactly coincides with the near-destruction of our unions by the Right.
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01-28-2010, 02:40 PM
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You won't get an argument out of me, I was sub-rep at Bell until they made me management. One of the things I like about our Impalas - Union Made.
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01-28-2010, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by d-ray657
It's funny how many people say it's the unions that make workers overpriced, when these amazingly skilled workers, after having several years of training to reach a high skill level, top out at around $100K, while those whose job is to move money around would consider that a mere pittance for their services.
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I too find the lazy union worker to be mostly a myth.
Some of my drinking buddies work for the local pipefitters and frost insulators unions and I can't think of a single one of them that makes near on 100K. Despite working in some deplorable conditions. Unless wrapping fiberglass insulation around steam pipes in a nuclear reactor sounds fun to any of you.
I myself was a card carrying member of the National Maritime union and it didn't make me any lazier than I already am.
BTW I feel for the guys in the UAW. They get so much crap for the bad cars that have rolled off the lines in Detroit when they neither designed them nor specced out the materials. Can't polish a turd.
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01-28-2010, 03:25 PM
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Can't polish a turd.
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I dunno, we have some high dollar, highly skilled turd polishers who go at it 24/7. See below.
Dave
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01-28-2010, 03:42 PM
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I dunno, we have some high dollar, highly skilled turd polishers who go at it 24/7. See below.
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Well you kind of make my point here.
The proffered samples arent very good at the suggested activity.
Although some of them MAY be union. I don't know if you have to join the SAG to be a talking head or not.
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