Unions can be beneficial to some ?

[Buford.Justice]

A linman's job does have a danger factor not nearly as bad as it was when my father did that job. I still have the ole cletes he put on to climb the poles with. and the safety belt.

And it is downright nasty weather to work in a times.

[Raceready]

Union Hall for slipshuckers????.......Ive heard it all now!!!

We ran into that rental man last weekend. His son does some of his routes part time after he finishes his other job. He has some stories that he shares with his dad as well. He arrived at a job site 20 minutes after everyone normally leaves and he could hear snoring in one of the units. The worker started his suction pump to do a unit next door down and the noise woke the sleeper on up. The slacker came out of the Porta John and when he saw that everyone else was gone he started cursing up a storm. He complained that "I'd better get an hour of overtime if I had to be here for extra time". Talk about having your cake and eat it too ! !

[kidrock]

And the cost of living goes up everytime this happens so the citizens are covering the high wages. Thank us, for letting your unions make the cost of living go up so you all can boast! Yep!

And yet Lurker says he knows a guy that makes way more than that and he's non union. Do You think the citizens are covering his high cost job also or just the union paid employee's. lmao.

[kidrock]

Yes the ole timers had it rough and it is a dangerous job. All the respect in the world for your dad and what he did.

Did your dad work high voltage or low voltage. High being the electric side of the utilities or low the Communication side of the utilities.

As far as the climbing belt Today they have the buck squeeze and if you start to fall it will grab the pole and not let you slide down the pole and get splinters, break a leg or foot. When your dad worked there they didn't have this safety feature

As far as the weather on my pole climbing test day in Chicago it was -27 with the windshield. When we were all done the instructor told us all if you made through today there is no reason you can't do this job. I've been super cold, super hot and soaked from head to toe in a rainstorm so, yes the weather can make the job a little harder from time to time.

[Buford.Justice]

And yet Lurker says he knows a guy that makes way more than that and he's non union. Do You think the citizens are covering his high cost job also or just the union paid employee's. lmao.

Once again, you lose the arguement. It's apparent that, that non union company could afford to pay those wages without a unions influence. Just think, that union due money mostly went into paying workers higher wages without a union adding to the companies expenses by demanding their extra cut to pay the union. So costs were lower all the way around.

[Buford.Justice]

Yes the ole timers had it rough and it is a dangerous job. All the respect in the world for your dad and what he did.

Did your dad work high voltage or low voltage. High being the electric side of the utilities or low the Communication side of the utilities.

As far as the climbing belt Today they have the buck squeeze and if you start to fall it will grab the pole and not let you slide down the pole and get splinters, break a leg or foot. When your dad worked there they didn't have this safety feature

As far as the weather on my pole climbing test day in Chicago it was -27 with the windshield. When we were all done the instructor told us all if you made through today there is no reason you can't do this job. I've been super cold, super hot and soaked from head to toe in a rainstorm so, yes the weather can make the job a little harder from time to time.

Just the low votage as far as I know. Actually I don't know. I was just born but do remember seeing the cletes.

[Raceready]

We ran into that rental man last weekend. His son does some of his routes part time after he finishes his other job. He has some stories that he shares with his dad as well. He arrived at a job site 20 minutes after everyone normally leaves and he could hear snoring in one of the units. The worker started his suction pump to do a unit next door down and the noise woke the sleeper on up. The slacker came out of the Porta John and when he saw that everyone else was gone he started cursing up a storm. He complained that "I'd better get an hour of overtime if I had to be here for extra time". Talk about having your cake and eat it too ! !

The son was telling of one union job site where the walls of the crapper [or lounge as the lazy workers were using them for] had the walls filled right plumb full of dirty, vulgar, and tasteless pornography along all kinds of untruthful propaganda against the honorable Mr. Trump. The son asked his Dad; How in the heck do they get that many breaks in to have time to write all that filth ?

[Buford.Justice]

A Graffitti Union?

[Raceready]

A Graffitti Union?

When the son said about all of the porno filth that was written I couldn't help but to think about a certain BANNED member that he most possibly was a member in good standing of a labor union ? ?

[Morgs153]

The original story that kicks off the thread is funny to me. My retirement gig right now is dump truck driver and heavy equipment operator for my neighbor's trucking and excavating business. Last year we got on a haul job for aggregates supplier to a major paper mill expansion in our area. When you would drive onto the job site you could divide the workers into three groups.

1) Actual work getting done, machine operators, safety spotters, etc..
2) Those walking to the porta potties.
3) Those walking from the porta potties.

I'm not kidding. My boss and I would joke about it all the time.

[Buford.Justice]

More waste above the stool lid than below it????

[fastford]

there were times when unions had an important place in helping the working man , now there hurting them , I,m not saying a union will never be relevant in our country again , BUT they should not be involved in any type public funded job , like teachers , you know what your getting when you take the job , and my daughter is a teacher ......

[Buford.Justice]

Here ya go kidrock and ss!! Which of you gets the top section???

[Raceready]

Had to laugh at The Blondie cartoon in todays newspaper; Dagwood and 2 more workers were gazing out their office window. They were envious of a union crew outside because they were able to be out there in such nice weather and getting paid to goof off in it !