Re: Re: Old School
By: Accession to All on Wed Jan 08 2025 09:59 pm
> FYI, and maybe this will help some people's possible handed down opinions (or
> just lack of first hand experience) in the future. As a union ironworker, my
> union dues are $42 a month. When your pay and benefits are almost 2x better
> than any non-union job, the dues (that I don't even write a check out for, or
> pay manually) goes almost unnoticed. In 18 years in the trade, I've never
> heard a single person complain about dues.
> On the other hand, we pay like $13+ an HOUR for our health and welfare.
> Many
> people complain about that, but not dues.
> Put it this way, a journeyman ironworker is billed out at like ~$75/hr
> (base
> rate) plus whatever the employer adds a percentage to it for some kind of
> profit, I imagine. Off the top of that, comes dues, health insurance,
well i've been a bit of a job jumper after leaving my job of 17 years.
I've worked at places that had unions that were total dogshit. The benefits
were not on par with non union companies and the progression and pay was poor.
Your experience in you union is not the norm in today's age. Especially in
wisconsin where you don't even have to be in a union in a 'union shop'
There's a lot of unions that just side with the company and don't do anyting for
their workers.
Sadly, things are not like they used to be.
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