re: #21 BeachDem

Speaking of Boeing, consider:

Boeing employees in the company’s South Carolina facility make an average of $10 less per hour than similar employees in the company’s Everett plant.
bizjournals.com
Boeing and South Carolina politicians are determined to keep out the union
seattletimes.com

South Carolina is bound and determined to remain a right to work (for lower wages) state.

Nikki Haley, who said terrible things about Trump (and he of her) is now his UN Ambassador (with no foreign policy experience whatsoever)

Correlation? Causation? Coincidence? (Conspiracy!!!??)

I remember when that non union plant in SC opened up. The union shop in Washington State went fucking ballistic. I didn’t blame them.

I have worked in both union and non union shops. Work rules in a union shop can be annoying and may seem arbitrary (I need to undo one screw on that bonding strap to remove the panel…but I have to send a work order over to the electrician shop to get a guy here to do that even though I have a screwdriver right here in my hand and my time is running on this job card)

But…

When somebody in management fucks up and all of a sudden you get the blame for some bullshit that was not your fault…you are real damn glad to have that union shop standing up for you.

That happened to me and I will never forget it. When I needed somebody to have my back…the union at the PEMCO aviation plant in Dothan, Alabama had my back.