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Unions deliver higher wages and benefits and bring a higher standard of living. Down sides to some unions is they protect the trash of your trade. They don't perform, but they make and receive the same as you. Another downside is EVERY politician that supports unions is basically anti gun and anti hunter. It forces you to have to keep your mouth shut if you are pro gun and pro hunt. Sometimes unions force you to give your money in donations to people who wish destroy what you love and hold dear. Just so you keep your job(they never say it, but the thought hangs).
The pros.
My experience if your a loyal soldier, and you walk lock step with them. You can make money. That is why I wake up every morning, to earn. I did it for a while. I have been in the IBEW for 33 years and I have not wanted for my family at all. I got married, bought a house, raised 3 sons, own 3 pieces of land in two states. My medical, dental and RX have all been taken care of. Copays are $30 but big deal. RX $5. I have a Pension, hourly Annuity and a 401K(matched up to 7%) all paid for by my employers the last 33 years. Full workers compensation and all the training I want for free. I have not always worked full years due to lack of work and injuries. But the way my union had it set up was myself and many others getting by without losing their home while unemployment was rampant with a work sharing program. Even though I have union representation, it does not mean I have a guaranteed job. It is construction, and if you do not perform, you do not work. After 3 bad layoffs, my union makes you go out and get your own job and prove you can hold a job for 6 months and come back and MAYBE they will reinstate you. Its a union, but if you don't work and get into trouble. You don't become employed. That simple. They find us work. Can't find your own.
There was a time when there was no workplace safety and rules. That us where unions shined and every employee in the country whether union or not benefited from them. Like the 40 hour work week and the weekend. OSHA. NIOSH. Brought to you by unions.
Approx 9% of the workforce in the USA is Union.
Horrible part, for all the good unions do; they are associated with the scum of Washington that support illegal immigration who I must now compete with for jobs. I have taken a down grading within my union because of my pro gun pro hunt pro NRA conservative stance. I have a only a few more years until I retire so. No big deal.
My union says vote with your wallet. I say what good is a job without a country?
Unions deliver higher wages and benefits and bring a higher standard of living. Down sides to some unions is they protect the trash of your trade. They don't perform, but they make and receive the same as you. Another downside is EVERY politician that supports unions is basically anti gun and anti hunter. It forces you to have to keep your mouth shut if you are pro gun and pro hunt. Sometimes unions force you to give your money in donations to people who wish destroy what you love and hold dear. Just so you keep your job(they never say it, but the thought hangs).
The pros.
My experience if your a loyal soldier, and you walk lock step with them. You can make money. That is why I wake up every morning, to earn. I did it for a while. I have been in the IBEW for 33 years and I have not wanted for my family at all. I got married, bought a house, raised 3 sons, own 3 pieces of land in two states. My medical, dental and RX have all been taken care of. Copays are $30 but big deal. RX $5. I have a Pension, hourly Annuity and a 401K(matched up to 7%) all paid for by my employers the last 33 years. Full workers compensation and all the training I want for free. I have not always worked full years due to lack of work and injuries. But the way my union had it set up was myself and many others getting by without losing their home while unemployment was rampant with a work sharing program. Even though I have union representation, it does not mean I have a guaranteed job. It is construction, and if you do not perform, you do not work. After 3 bad layoffs, my union makes you go out and get your own job and prove you can hold a job for 6 months and come back and MAYBE they will reinstate you. Its a union, but if you don't work and get into trouble. You don't become employed. That simple. They find us work. Can't find your own.
There was a time when there was no workplace safety and rules. That us where unions shined and every employee in the country whether union or not benefited from them. Like the 40 hour work week and the weekend. OSHA. NIOSH. Brought to you by unions.
Approx 9% of the workforce in the USA is Union.
Horrible part, for all the good unions do; they are associated with the scum of Washington that support illegal immigration who I must now compete with for jobs. I have taken a down grading within my union because of my pro gun pro hunt pro NRA conservative stance. I have a only a few more years until I retire so. No big deal.
My union says vote with your wallet. I say what good is a job without a country?
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