Celebrate the working class!
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Happy Labor Day to all those who know how hard it is to punch a time clock everyday.
To those who have had to start over or reinvent themselves past the age of 50.
To all those still working because they can’t afford to retire and told they didn’t do things right.
To all those who ring a register, stand on concrete floors all day in factories,chemical plants, assembly plants and plastic plants. To those who jump in and out of delivery trucks all day long… not because they want to but because they have to! Not everyone can be a CEO or have a job they can put their feet up on their desk. You are the people who have built America and keep America running every single day!
Be KIND look out for the working class!
They are and always have been the backbone of America!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Bozo: formerly IBOT, formerly UAW, formerly working.
We are still going and hope to retire in a year!
It’s been a grueling process!
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My husband worked 38 yrs in a factory with no union. All three shifts and worked himself in to a Forman position.
He then became keeper of the keys opening gates and doors.
He was well liked because he never asked the workers to do more than what he once did. He asked all of his coworkers to do it for him when asked. Never a problem.
Then it got sold and all management went first.
Everyone who wanted to stay at 13.00 and hour could.
At age 55 he took a job for UPS and they were rotten and never hired him in probably age related.
He proceeded and ruined both his knees while going to school.
He got a job with the state a Union job. And had bilateral knee replacement and will be there 10 yrs!
Looking forward to retirement.
I lost my job at age 59.
and don’t forget the rudeness they face from younger folks.
Meanwhile the billionaires show off their trinkets and demand more profits and benefits.
rich I just wanted to retire earlier and enjoy whatever there is left of life!
Like watercolors!
I read all your posts!
Thanks for keeping us informed.
and hired in at the car factory in 1972.
The guy on the left of me was an immigrant that had to sign his name with an X. On the other side was a Phd that couldn’t afford to take a job in his field.
Put in 30 years and retired a little over 21 years ago.
Pro union here.
Ohio always did suck for Union jobs. But have always been pro union!
as I’d rather be posting in the artist group.
But damn laborers are the people who need more recognition!
Not inherited wealth assholes!
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such as 8-hour days, weekends, overtime pay, retirement, and so on.
In the Deep South unions are underrepresented and misunderstood.
To anyone who might ask (and few do) why I am pro-union, I keep it simple: Don't you want a retirement benefit plan? The top CEOs all have their plans and payouts; don't you think you deserve one?
I get a lot of shuffling and silence for answers. The most common answer is they don't want to pay the union dues. The retention rate for the lowest-paid workers is very low; turnover is high.
This is life in a right-to-work state. (right to fire; in other words)
Go Union!
one hour a week for the price of Union dues and people complain!
I worked for Rite Aid and we were the only Non Union Pharmacy because the Store Manager hated Unions almost as much as Obama!
Consequently when Walgreens threatened to buy us out I lost my job.
Now they can’t keep good help and the pharmacist is overwhelmed!
My husband worked 38 years with no Union and so glad that he has one the last 10 years! Beyond greatful!
Thanks for your wonderful reply!
I was going to post something, but you said it better than I could.
Proud Union person