Subj : How far I've come...
To : MRO
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Tue Jan 31 2023 03:34 pm
> i've been told not to sweep when i have nothing to do. i was told to drink at
> bar during our breaks (no prob with that!), i was told that i was not allowed
> work for a 2 week period during the holidays because i was not in the union y
> . unions just hold people back now.
I worked in a union shop for a couple of years but, as office staff, we
were not union. The union really sold their employees out. There had a
been a big strike there a couple of years before I started. One day, the
HR manager from that time came in and a bunch of the union guys were
hugging on him like a brother. I asked one of them about it later... like,
you know, since he would have been management during the strike. He told
me the strike taught them who really cared about them (the HR manager from
that era) and who didn't (the union, the current HR manager).
There were still a few die-hard pro-union workers while I was still there,
but most of them were only in it because they had to be in order to work
there.
I got laid off in 1996. The plant was closed by 2000, with only a skeleton
sales staff left over.
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