Quote Originally Posted by waterdog101 View Post
I to am a union worker, and after working 10 hours on the job. I don't have any trouble sleeping. something some of you guys that don't like unions might not know. the union are the ones that set the prevailing wage in ky. if ky ever becomes a right to work state, instead of your scale pay being 25.00 per hour, it will be more like 12.50 per hour. and even if your not a union worker, you would get a big pay cut at your job, because where theres a union, nonunion jobs close by try to pay close to the union scale. the same job I do here in ky, if I did it in the right to work states located south of ky. my pay would be cut in half. I'm proud to be a union worker, because I like getting payed when I work hard.
I am a benefactor of the prevailing wage law. And if you ask me it's a big waste of money. Sure I love making $40 an hr. Yet the money the state pays out to these wages is ridiculous. Also tried the union and I worked to hard to be a union man. Worked at Ford motor during shut downs and my daily assignment was stay awake. Not enough work to keep me occupied for my 12 hr. shift. I'm all for my boss making money if he doesn't he'll be forced to shut down and that's the end of the job. If there's nothing for me to do send me home. I'm not against the unions at all. Yet when I was in I was working for the company and not the union. Most guys I worked with were working for the union and not the company.