Reply #49: One of my co-workers at my last job is anti-union because [View All]

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he thinks the union guys make too much money. There are/were men at our manufacturing plant and at the General Motors plant in the city up the road who make $40 or $50 bucks an hour and have a really nice lifestyle- and some of them didn't finish high school or barely finished high school.

So for that reason, people like my co-worker, who finished high school and two years of technical college (and also has a salary in that range), resents them.

And I, who have considerably more education, (and make a lot less money), don't resent them at all. They chose their career path, they work hard for their money and take on some real physical and health risks for the work they do, so good for them. I don't take on any physical risk for the work I do and I won't die an early death because of it.

And gee whiz, two years of technical college- he's damn lucky to have a salary in that range.

People don't realize that the reason the rest of us have good benefits is because the unions demanded them. Its like the less education people have, the more sensitive they are to class issues. Funny though, my co-worker is married to a schoolteacher, and he had no complaints about her being in a union, which provided the whole family's health care benefits for free. Every year the union said they were going to have to start paying for benefits the teachers threatened to strike.