Being 'Old School' makes it difficult to hold my tongue at times...

K.O. SWINGER said

I have to totally disagree and hopefully this won't head down to rabbit hole, I have a union position we have the highest pay rate the best equipment, the best benefits package, the most time off, and probably the highest quality of worker in our industry. Maybe a few people take some advantage but when there's a thousand people that want your job you better do it good. And once again I try not to measure myself by other people's standards or what they do with their time.

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Its the easy way to blame the union worker when the blame should be were it rightfully belongs
People seem to think being in a union automatically give a worker the God given right to be a slacker.
Its been my experience that shops ran like that are shops were the management has lost a gripe and lets the worker dominate
I would not know my trade like I know today nor would I have what I have had it not been for my union trade employment......I wouldn't have the benefits or retirement I have either
I also seen at my age many of guys I know who are dead or disabled from all sorts of disease and other illness as a result of the work that they did all those years
So no a union job isn't a cushy easy get any with anything type of employment, not with what I did
We had major F-ups, guys who were drug users thieves who deserved any punishment they got including getting fired and we had guys who did nothing wrong and still got screwed over, I represented them all as a shop steward....I worked for good and bad boss's ....Its human nature not the job or union