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Pete Houwen <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:37:17 -0600
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It's not just assembly line.  I worked in a union design faciliity  Of course, it 
didn't help that we were working for the government, also.

Within hours of starting the job, feeling unproductive since I didn't know any 
of their procedures, I got the tap on the shoulder and a threat about slowing 
down to stop making the rest of them look bad.  I was allowed to sit over the 
shoulders of higher level members to tell them how to do their job, but I wasn't 
allowed to actually do it (or get paid at that level), or even be "promoted", 
because there were other people in front of me waiting for those dinosaurs to 
retire.  But they were in no hurry - with 8 weeks of vacation and 40 sick days 
(we were pressured to use them all), they were already "retired".   A crew of 
us spent a month and a half on mandatory 7, 12 hour days with tons of 
overtime, double and triple, on a "hot job".  We had insisted we could get the 
work done in normal hours, but were told the union "negotiated" the schedule.  
We did an unofficial survey, found the average was about 2-1/2 hours of 
actual work in an 8 hour day.

Last union job I'll work.

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