Sunny 🟦 on Nostr: npub19fcv2…aay3c My experience: 1976: The powerful Plumbers and Steamfitters Union ...
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My experience:
1976: The powerful Plumbers and Steamfitters Union had 5 openings. I was looking hard for my first REAL job, but to get one of those positions, you had to take a knowledge and aptitude test. I signed up for it. When I showed up, I found I was one of nearly 500 people that came to take the test to become eligible for one of the openings.
I tested, and when results were posted, I got the second highest score out of everyone!
Long story short: I didn't get selected for one of the openings, BECAUSE, I had no relatives or close ties to anybody already in the Union, to sponsor me.
Unions were basically giant mob families in the '60's and '70's.
And you're right, left unchecked, they would have had us working 4-hour days in 4-day weeks by now.
But trickle-down had zero to do with clipping union wings. Reagan smashing PATCO in 1981, the Air Traffic Controller's union, is what thwarted union power. End of the union Glory Days.
https://www.klcc.org/npr-politics/npr-politics/2021-08-05/looking-back-on-when-president-reagan-fired-the-air-traffic-controllers
My experience:
1976: The powerful Plumbers and Steamfitters Union had 5 openings. I was looking hard for my first REAL job, but to get one of those positions, you had to take a knowledge and aptitude test. I signed up for it. When I showed up, I found I was one of nearly 500 people that came to take the test to become eligible for one of the openings.
I tested, and when results were posted, I got the second highest score out of everyone!
Long story short: I didn't get selected for one of the openings, BECAUSE, I had no relatives or close ties to anybody already in the Union, to sponsor me.
Unions were basically giant mob families in the '60's and '70's.
And you're right, left unchecked, they would have had us working 4-hour days in 4-day weeks by now.
But trickle-down had zero to do with clipping union wings. Reagan smashing PATCO in 1981, the Air Traffic Controller's union, is what thwarted union power. End of the union Glory Days.
https://www.klcc.org/npr-politics/npr-politics/2021-08-05/looking-back-on-when-president-reagan-fired-the-air-traffic-controllers