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In reply to the discussion: What's So Great About Unions, Anyway? [View all]RedstDem
(1,239 posts)24. so you turned out to be a rat electrician?
and you decided that was the best course, after being held back, by being TOO productive as a unionized "pipe designer", which of course you would have needed to have gone to at least four years of university, just to get your foot in the door at a mechanical design firm as an INTERN, much less a practicing, licensed, mechanical engineer.....
and you threw at all away, for the glamorous life of a project manger for a non union electrical contractor...of which they are a dime a dozen.
you are full of it...
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Most of my career in electric power has been developing projects, both domestic and international.
badtoworse
Feb 2013
#32
do you enjoy weekends off - vacations - paid sick time - unless you're in management you've
leftyohiolib
Feb 2013
#6
non-union shops are usually lower-quality work & famous for short-cutting and not doing what was
leftyohiolib
Feb 2013
#8
40 hours a week instead of 60 or more. Breaks, Saturdays, vacation days, sick days, ...
Festivito
Feb 2013
#52