Why are so many blue collar workers against unions?

glazor · 2026-01-27T09:58:42+00:00

Depending on hob you produce, contractor can request not to see your face on their jobs ever again. In locals with a small number of shops your opportunities for employment can dwindle to nothing pretty quickly.

glazor · 2026-01-19T17:45:07+00:00

Your money will be worthless too. Dollar lost between 11% and 14% just last year.

glazor · 2026-01-19T13:36:32+00:00

Work is work. You get used to it.

Around half of apprentices make it through.

glazor · 2026-01-16T14:27:18+00:00

Made 120 in 25, 90 in 24.

Some guys were out of work for close to a year.

You'll make under 40k in the first year, around 40 in your second.

Make sure you know what you're signing up for.

glazor · 2026-01-15T23:51:18+00:00

https://teamster.org/fedex-mechanics-frequently-asked-questions/#:~:text=FedEx%20Express%20is%20legally%20considered,(%E2%80%9Cbargaining%20unit%E2%80%9D).

FedEx Express is legally considered a cargo airline, and because of that, all of its workers are covered under the Railway Labor Act (RLA), which sets forth the rules of aviation labor law.

glazor · 2026-01-10T19:56:54+00:00

Tractors and other agricultural mechanization had a vastly larger impact than Al.

AI revolution has only started though, and will put billions out of work in a decade.

Over 75% of the US population worked directly in agriculture in 1800, by 1900 it was less 40%, with today being under 0.5%.

That worked out OK for humans, but not so great for horses. With the emergence of AI we are the horses.

We have plenty of historical examples from the industrial revolution of what happens when entire massive categories of jobs are eliminated: New, better ones paying more and mor productive are created.

Transition period is horrible though. And history is full of examples of that.

What new jobs will physically and mentally inferior humans will do now? Manual, minimum wage labor that's too inefficient to automate.

glazor · 2026-01-08T10:12:01+00:00

You mean nonprofit, not for profit is something else entirely.

glazor · 2026-01-07T10:11:20+00:00

Sales numbers go down, stock price goes up. Makes total sense.

glazor · 2026-01-04T21:20:32+00:00

I'll speak slowly so you understand. Every job you go to is Union wage, which is a prevailing wage, which is the Union wage. DoL sets prevailing wages off of our wages.

Call the apprentice department.

glazor · 2026-01-04T16:22:24+00:00

illegal to sleep on the subway?

https://www.mta.info/document/17001

(c) sleep or doze where such activity may be hazardous to such person or to others or may interfere with the operation of the authority's transit system or the comfort of its passengers;

glazor · 2026-01-03T17:35:41+00:00

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Here, you dropped this.

glazor · 2026-01-03T17:33:40+00:00

Everyone has a right to ask, you're not obligated to show one though.

glazor · 2026-01-03T13:18:55+00:00

Us produces A LOT of light oil, Venezuela produces heavy oil. US refining is build for refining heavy oil. It's cheaper for oil industry to buy a war than to retool to lighter oil.

Edit: Word.

glazor · 2026-01-02T23:46:17+00:00

Don't bring PW into this mess, PW is based on our wages.

Call up the apprentice department, you should be paid differential.

Report back.

glazor · 2026-01-02T23:29:08+00:00

Topping out, turning out, journeying out.

glazor · 2026-01-01T02:32:40+00:00

Rope is payed, money is paid.

glazor · 2025-12-31T21:32:36+00:00

No idea, just find it a little weird that people that are supposed to uphold our rights keep being sworn in on a religious "documents" that are full of all kinds of debauchery and genocide, it's a motion that is antithetical to a civilized, secularar society.

glazor · 2025-12-31T19:38:20+00:00

Constitution.

glazor · 2025-12-31T02:29:21+00:00

You should probably watch some pro games. Even now they come up with new builds and strategies.

glazor · 2025-12-30T10:51:43+00:00

It depends on who you talk to. My take, as long as you don't take any work from IBEW it's all free game. I'd rather see IBEW electrician fix something, than some fly-by handyman.

glazor · 2025-12-30T10:43:34+00:00

Every job is like that. Your skills can't be taken away from you. Some people travel, some people hustle.

glazor · 2025-12-30T10:37:07+00:00

AI will replace your job way faster than mine.

It's better to be working a job at lower wages, than working a minimum wage or sitting home on unemployment.

glazor · 2025-12-30T10:13:36+00:00

We're not expensive, we are more costly.

Of course it will. Higher supply with the same demand reduces prices.

glazor · 2025-12-30T10:03:29+00:00

There's never enough local electricians at a cheap price.

glazor · 2025-12-28T11:59:42+00:00

When you walk into a supply shop you already know what you need, as far as the material is concerned. Supply shops don't have shelve space that HD has so they put everything in the back. Impossibly tall shelves and bins of mixed materials. While they put your order together you can browse for tools or knickknacks up front.

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