Bubblehead
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I'll give you that $8.50 is a joke to start at ups, but how many jobs do you know of were you can go from $8.50 to $16.10 an hour in under a year?
And than within 36 months from that be making $30 plus topping out at $32 an hour and change?
How many fulltimers voted against the contract to help out the ptimers?
This is not a slam at mt ptime friends here on this site, but how can you expect a ftimer to risk everything for a ptimer when they wont even take the time to help themselves?
In 97 everyone stood shoulder to shoulder together in unity, and here we are 11 years later and we couldn't be farther apart!
I remember were i came from the ptime ranks and i also had to suffer for 5 years to get this ftime job and than another 2 and a half to see top out pay for a total of 7 and half years, now the newbies see it in under 4 years!
Kind of sad isn't Red. To many people only worried about "me". Reading through these posts I see way to many people with the whats good for me and the rest of you guys be damned attitude.
Organized labor wasn't conceived or achieved overnight or even within a generation. It came into being with intention of curbing the greed of business owner who exploited the front line worker. Many people sacrificed and suffered to put into place the unions that still survive today. To ignore that history as was alluded to in a previous post is nothing more than selfish arrogance. Think about our history as a country and some of our national holidays. Memorial Day, Independence Day, Veterans Day, etc. I've got one, how about Labor Day?
Wake up people! In this era of corporate greed our union is more important than it has been in many years. A good union is only as strong as the sum of its parts. Our strength can be found in unity, but quite frankly I'm not seeing it. It baffles me to see people fighting for the ability to skip their lunch break. It is simply moronic.