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<blockquote data-quote="brownmonster" data-source="post: 816136" data-attributes="member: 298"><p>365 in a year. 104 days are weekends=261. You have 6 weeks vacation and 8 holidays and 2 personal days that means you work 220 days compared to 180 for a teacher. Hardly half a year. Don&#039;t get me wrong, I&#039;ve had issues with Teachers in my area forever. All city workers for that matter. My father in law retired at 51 from the fire dept. His pension is over 40K a year. I just see corporate america lickking their chops over this whole issue. The working man has been getting spanked for years. I made 12 bucks an hour at my job before UPS back in 88. UPS was paying 15. My wage has doubled since then, as has the cost of living. I&#039;m pretty sure that 12 dollar job I had wouldn&#039;t pay 24 now. The high tide of union labor raised all workers over the years and it will lower all as unions continue to decline. And don&#039;t give me that can&#039;t compete crap. American companies are making obscene amounts, it&#039;s just that no one fights for their share anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="brownmonster, post: 816136, member: 298"] 365 in a year. 104 days are weekends=261. You have 6 weeks vacation and 8 holidays and 2 personal days that means you work 220 days compared to 180 for a teacher. Hardly half a year. Don't get me wrong, I've had issues with Teachers in my area forever. All city workers for that matter. My father in law retired at 51 from the fire dept. His pension is over 40K a year. I just see corporate america lickking their chops over this whole issue. The working man has been getting spanked for years. I made 12 bucks an hour at my job before UPS back in 88. UPS was paying 15. My wage has doubled since then, as has the cost of living. I'm pretty sure that 12 dollar job I had wouldn't pay 24 now. The high tide of union labor raised all workers over the years and it will lower all as unions continue to decline. And don't give me that can't compete crap. American companies are making obscene amounts, it's just that no one fights for their share anymore. [/QUOTE]

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