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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: 1226970" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>The worst part about your sister's experience is that this is becoming an increasingly common story in this country. During the Recession, "80 became the new 60" as far as retirement was concerned and the stagnant unemployment rate has driven down wages across the board. My dad is in a similar situation; he was laid-off from a manufacturing job that outsourced to Malaysia in late 2009 and went on unemployment. He couldn't find any work, so he took advantage of a displaced worker program to receive training as a pharmacy tech. Now, every pharmacy wants him to "intern" (work for <img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />ing free) to "gain experience" before they'll hire him so he's been forced to take a warehouse job at $10/hr as a 60 year old man with a pacemaker while he keeps looking.</p><p></p><p>Wall Street is just gonna keep putting the squeeze on working people until they throw down the gauntlet -- just like they did in the 1930's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1226970, member: 42270"] The worst part about your sister's experience is that this is becoming an increasingly common story in this country. During the Recession, "80 became the new 60" as far as retirement was concerned and the stagnant unemployment rate has driven down wages across the board. My dad is in a similar situation; he was laid-off from a manufacturing job that outsourced to Malaysia in late 2009 and went on unemployment. He couldn't find any work, so he took advantage of a displaced worker program to receive training as a pharmacy tech. Now, every pharmacy wants him to "intern" (work for [IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG]ing free) to "gain experience" before they'll hire him so he's been forced to take a warehouse job at $10/hr as a 60 year old man with a pacemaker while he keeps looking. Wall Street is just gonna keep putting the squeeze on working people until they throw down the gauntlet -- just like they did in the 1930's. [/QUOTE]
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