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What A Non Union Company Did To My Sister And Hundreds Of Others.
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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1119479" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>My dad worked at a copper foundry that was shut down by the owner during an organizing campaign by the USW in the early '90's. He was never involved and the USW eventually left - he didn't really said much against or about unions when I was growing up, other than complaining whenever the UAW would strike during the Clinton administration. There were a lot of 60-70 hour weeks working 3rd shift and whatever other shift he could when I was in grade and middle school.</p><p></p><p> After 15+ years there, they demoted him from what was essentially middle management back to the floor and cut his pay to shreds. He jumped ship and got hired at a Dell plant that was opening right when I graduated high school and I was hired on at UPS. He bled Dell blue until they decided it was cheaper to manufacture office servers and laptops in Mexico. He was laid off 3+ years ago and is still trying to find a job that pays more than $9.00/hr - he went through a pharmacy tech program which had the government paying for his training, but no one wants to hire a 60 year old. </p><p></p><p>Cutting someone's knees out from under them on the eve of their (well-earned) retirement is one of the most despicable things about the modern American way of doing business. Nearly everyone - with few exceptions - should have the viable option to join a union. The deck has always been stacked against the American worker and its only been getting worse since the Great Recession.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1119479, member: 42270"] My dad worked at a copper foundry that was shut down by the owner during an organizing campaign by the USW in the early '90's. He was never involved and the USW eventually left - he didn't really said much against or about unions when I was growing up, other than complaining whenever the UAW would strike during the Clinton administration. There were a lot of 60-70 hour weeks working 3rd shift and whatever other shift he could when I was in grade and middle school. After 15+ years there, they demoted him from what was essentially middle management back to the floor and cut his pay to shreds. He jumped ship and got hired at a Dell plant that was opening right when I graduated high school and I was hired on at UPS. He bled Dell blue until they decided it was cheaper to manufacture office servers and laptops in Mexico. He was laid off 3+ years ago and is still trying to find a job that pays more than $9.00/hr - he went through a pharmacy tech program which had the government paying for his training, but no one wants to hire a 60 year old. Cutting someone's knees out from under them on the eve of their (well-earned) retirement is one of the most despicable things about the modern American way of doing business. Nearly everyone - with few exceptions - should have the viable option to join a union. The deck has always been stacked against the American worker and its only been getting worse since the Great Recession. [/QUOTE]
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