Quote Originally Posted by coombro View Post
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.
.......I don't know about other union jobs, but the union jobs that I've worked on. thats exactly what would happen if you didn't have anything to do, you will be sent home. if your machine breaks down, and it takes say 2 hours to fix it, you go home until the next day. and if you are caught sleeping on the job, you go home, I'm not sure how that would play out if sent home or fired. our type of work everyone is to busy working to sleep. and missing work, 3 days in a month without a dr. excues, your fired, and seniority changes from job to job, no one keeps top seniority, the next job your on you may be on the bottom, and your, drug tested before you start work, and they give, suprise drug test for everyone on the job, if you fail it, your fired. and I have seen a lot fired, for using drugs. I've worked nonunion jobs, when I was a younger man. and they tend to be a family type job. the superintendents like to hire ther brothers, uncles, sons, and nephews, or friends, or friends friend. and the pay isen't a set scale, one guy may make 2.00 per hour more than the next guy doing the same job. I've been there. in heave rain, we don't work. the union job pays 2 hours show up time. if your rained out, the 2 hours covers your expence for getting out of bed and driving 1 and 1/2 hours toget to work and using 20 bucks in gas. the non union jobs don't care about your expence, they just say no work today, see you tomorrow. the only safety net we have is hard work. so being a union worker makes my life a little better than it was, when I worked nonunion. do any of you guys that don't like unions, have any mothers, sisters, or brothers that work for walmart. if so ask them how they are treated at work by the nonunion supervision. and you may have worked there yourself, if so you know what im talking about.