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Skriven 2011-11-22 15:34:31 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 23018 av Nicholas Boel (2380.fidonews)
Ärende: See what I mean...read the bottom line
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21 Nov 11 21:09, Nicholas Boel wrote to Ross Cassell:

 NB>>> Actually, Local 8 is Ironworkers. Steelworkers are shop hands. And
 NB>>> I'm sorry you feel that way about my choice of employment.

 >> Nice profession, stained by unions..

 NB> I take it you're just against _all_ unions then, hey?

Pretty much.

 NB> Even though we DO pay our own health insurance, pension, annuity,
 NB> apprenticeship, journeyman upgrade, etc off the top of our checks?

Yeup...did all of that without having to belong to a union. Tool and Die
Apprentice grad in 1966 at a non union company in Illinois. Hired on at
The Boeing Company in Seattle for one year as a Journeyman T&D Maker - 6
months after graduating, migrated to San Diego and stayed for 39 years
without needing a union to get work. Instrumental in removing the union
(IAM - Int'l Assc of Machinists) while I was the foreman of the tool room
at that company (company man - non union). Started my own business that
supported the family for 11 years, finally taking a manufacturing engineer
job at a company where I could earn a SS income for retirement, all
without a union.

 NB> If so, then it's probably not a good topic, especially for this echo.
 NB> :)

One topic is as good as another.

 NB> It pays the bills and supports my family. And there's a possibility I
 NB> can retire... someday far from now.

Been there too...no union.

 NB> I can't ask for much more than that when there's lots of people out
 NB> there that can't say the same.

You could do as many others have. Shed the union and become your own man.


                R\%/itt


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