Union Work

[Go Vols]

Someone in GD suggested that I posted this here. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6155157

There are good paying jobs if you are willing to travel.

http://www.ironworkers.org/jobline

Where there are Ironworkers,there are also electricians,carpenters,plumbers,pipefitters,concrete work,glaziers,heavy machine ops,ect.

I have shut down big jobs when they tried to bring in non union help to do piddly shit because it just isn't right,it wasn't really hard to do when you tell all on the job that their was non union workers there and some of them drove non UAW cars.
We would just walk off the job and the next day the non union folks were not there to be seen/work again.

[Omaha Steve]

1. Thanks for posting

[NBachers]

2. My placard when I was a proud striking Teamster:

[winterwar]

3. The middle class doesn't exist without unions

I will always support my union brothers and sisters, and educate those who don't know of the good unions do. We are facing a mountain of anti-union lies these days. My wife and I are both from multi-generational union families and fight everyday to spread the word about the benefit of unionization. Thanks for the post.

[mopinko]

4. construction companies love unions.

they take care of what would otherwise be complex bs of pensions and health insurance. most members work for many different companies, and there would be no way to track that stuff except through a third party.
nobody in their right mind does that kind of dangerous work without good benefits. so many break down before retirement age as well.

construction relies on healthy workers, so insurance has always been something that benefits the company as much as it does the workers.

these will stay union jobs for a long time to come, unless you live in red states.

great jobs for women, i might add. not sure how it is these days, but there used to be a lot of quotas for women workers. there were never enough to fill them.

(this org is my baby, sort of. i was a founding mother, back all those years.)
http://www.chicagowomenintrades.org/index.shtml

orgs like this all over the country.