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<blockquote data-quote="JSCATTLE" data-source="post: 1221521" data-attributes="member: 16648"><p>The usw isn't sticking together as a whole. Picking which plants go out and which keep working . It should be all or nothing. What a lot of union hating people and people that work at non union plants don't think about is their pay scale and safety standards are set by union contracts . The non union sites have to keep up or they lose all of their good hands to higher paying sites. I keep reading a lot of people from different places saying just fire the union guys and hire new employees . Most people think the job is easy and you don't do anything for 12 hrs a day . But there is a lot of training involved to run a plant.the first time you have an explosion and you have to step over body's to fight the fires . Which is usually liquid or vapor fuel spraying out of pipes. In order to keep the community from burning or blowing up . You will understand why these guys and gals are compensated the way they are .</p><p></p><p> We have 4 spheres in our plant that contain so much ethylene oxide that if just one blew up it would level a 7 mile radius around our plant. We basically all know we will eventually get cancer from the stuff we make . But we do it to better our families financial situations. We chose to do this just like policemen choose to put their lives n the line. I like what I do and wouldn't go back to construction unless I had no other choice . With negotiated contracts every 3 years we know the company is looking to take something away . We counter with an equally insane offer to counter the company's insane offer in hopes to meet I the middle . </p><p> </p><p> Gone are the days of receiving gifts for retirement or Christmas. My. Grandfather was given a Rolex by DuPont when he retired . They would have thanksgiving dinner brought out if they were working that day . My company use to buy 18 wheeler loads of TV's and house hold items to give to every employee at Christmas. It's no longer the company taking care of their employee s . You are just a number . There are 2000 people standing in line waiting to take your job when you leave. So company's will do what they can to increase profit . Be it safety short cuts. Asking you to work more so they don't have to hire someone else. Fewer turn a rounds to fix leaks ( which we breathe everyday) or bad piping.. This is why union members walk out .</p><p></p><p> None of this is over money. Texas is a right to work state . We can be fired for striking over money. Ill go where the money is . As most people will do. But that leaves new guys and the scrubs at the low paying sites . It makes for a very dangerous situation not only for the employees but for the people that live just outside the fence . Like cb said that chain link ( vapor barrier) doesn't protect the community .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JSCATTLE, post: 1221521, member: 16648"] The usw isn't sticking together as a whole. Picking which plants go out and which keep working . It should be all or nothing. What a lot of union hating people and people that work at non union plants don't think about is their pay scale and safety standards are set by union contracts . The non union sites have to keep up or they lose all of their good hands to higher paying sites. I keep reading a lot of people from different places saying just fire the union guys and hire new employees . Most people think the job is easy and you don't do anything for 12 hrs a day . But there is a lot of training involved to run a plant.the first time you have an explosion and you have to step over body's to fight the fires . Which is usually liquid or vapor fuel spraying out of pipes. In order to keep the community from burning or blowing up . You will understand why these guys and gals are compensated the way they are . We have 4 spheres in our plant that contain so much ethylene oxide that if just one blew up it would level a 7 mile radius around our plant. We basically all know we will eventually get cancer from the stuff we make . But we do it to better our families financial situations. We chose to do this just like policemen choose to put their lives n the line. I like what I do and wouldn't go back to construction unless I had no other choice . With negotiated contracts every 3 years we know the company is looking to take something away . We counter with an equally insane offer to counter the company's insane offer in hopes to meet I the middle . Gone are the days of receiving gifts for retirement or Christmas. My. Grandfather was given a Rolex by DuPont when he retired . They would have thanksgiving dinner brought out if they were working that day . My company use to buy 18 wheeler loads of TV's and house hold items to give to every employee at Christmas. It's no longer the company taking care of their employee s . You are just a number . There are 2000 people standing in line waiting to take your job when you leave. So company's will do what they can to increase profit . Be it safety short cuts. Asking you to work more so they don't have to hire someone else. Fewer turn a rounds to fix leaks ( which we breathe everyday) or bad piping.. This is why union members walk out . None of this is over money. Texas is a right to work state . We can be fired for striking over money. Ill go where the money is . As most people will do. But that leaves new guys and the scrubs at the low paying sites . It makes for a very dangerous situation not only for the employees but for the people that live just outside the fence . Like cb said that chain link ( vapor barrier) doesn't protect the community . [/QUOTE]
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