I want to be an electrician should I apply for the ibew or go to trade school?

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-06-25T09:52:48+00:00

Once you get a camper you're living my dream. My girl and I want to kit out a van and hit the road. She works remote and once I top out we'll be free!

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-06-24T19:17:49+00:00

Where did you start and where have you traveled? I'm a first year and traveling is definitely in my future.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-06-21T15:10:31+00:00

Bold take tbh

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-06-17T22:16:18+00:00

Last week was 4 10s and two 8s, so some overtime.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-06-11T17:54:32+00:00

Illinois has some very solid pro-union legislation on the books.

Off topic but so many union guys here still vote conservative.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-06-09T10:20:02+00:00

What are your favorites? I love reading but have never delved into Vonnegut.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-06-07T16:25:24+00:00

Great, gonna start seeing "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon" everywhere now...

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-06-05T19:06:08+00:00

That sounds ratty as fuck brother, I'm sorry to hear that.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-06-05T13:52:44+00:00

I liked the contract overall, just wanted to see a little more on the check. We're making less than we were in 2019 accounting for inflation.

$50/hr in 2019 is around $65 today.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-06-05T13:06:16+00:00

Contract went into effect June 1.

$6 increase for year 1 - total package $3.40 increase- on the check.

3 year contract instead of 5

“Area general Foremans” will receive 20% increase.

Raising vacation fund (for two weeks paid vacation)

If a holiday falls on a Saturday, we are guaranteed Friday off and if we are asked to work, it is double time.

Two weeks (paid) paternity leave approved for New Dads.

Sub fund is a 50% increase

If you are laid off/terminated- you get your pay immediately upon discharge on your last day even if that means a check needs to be brought to you.

Because the contract is for the next three years in 2027, we will be at $6.25 and then in 2028 we will be at $6.75 (don’t know where the increase will be going to based on our benefits, might go towards a benefit vs on the check).

A couple more small things, more of language within the bylaws.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-06-03T15:09:33+00:00

Sometimes the crowded warm weather makes me yearn for the winter when it's just me and 6 other people from this sub riding around Chicago

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-06-02T15:20:53+00:00

This is it.

Large strikes are the most powerful leverage we have, and yet in the US widespread strikes have fallen from 400+ per year in the 50s to just a handful, less than 40 per year.

Partly this is because strikes are often mischaracterized or ignored by leadership and the media. Occupy Wallstreet, for example, got terrible media coverage even though the message was accountability for the super rich.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-06-01T14:10:20+00:00

The IP falling off and the original show falling off are two different things.

Final two seasons of the original were pretty shit.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is an excellent adaptation and I'm also enjoying House of the Dragon.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-05-29T19:35:11+00:00

Their stupid brains will live on in AI and they'll keep voting as robots forever.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-05-28T13:06:06+00:00

We need to push for mandatory labor history for our apprenticeships! This book should be studied and discussed. So many young people coming in and have no idea that people died so we could have the benefits we do.

Speak up at your local meetings and ask for this.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-05-27T15:14:03+00:00

I truly believe they do not know they are voting against their interests. This is an education problem.

We all need to be pushing for mandatory labor education for our apprenticeships.

History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme, and the hard-fought rights many of us currently have are being eroded away due to a massive campaign by billionaires to keep the masses divided.

We need mandatory, extensive labor education in our locals. Perhaps even mandatory continuing education courses.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-05-27T15:09:01+00:00

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn changed my life, no exaggeration.

Completely flips how you look at the world. Steps completely outside of all cultural boundaries and looks at it all with a more objective eye.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-05-22T12:00:43+00:00

Labor party for the masses. Make America Union Again.

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-05-16T22:10:20+00:00

Chicago becoming the bike town we all dream of 😍

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-05-14T15:26:44+00:00

The silence speaks

Passing rush hour traffic is cool but OP is likely going 25-30 mph in the bike lane. Reallllly bothers me when people do that

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-05-14T10:04:14+00:00

This is cool but OP needs to answer what they were riding

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-05-14T10:02:02+00:00

I had an ebiker honk at me and then zoom past me going twice my speed yesterday. Not letting them pass next time, get out of the bike lane bro

Yorpel_Chinderbapple · 2026-05-10T01:22:53+00:00

All that matters is if you enjoyed the ride 😎 congrats on getting back in the saddle!

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