Gasoline Price ?

[windtrader]

surprising how cheap diesel is here in CA. running around $4.50 in NorCal. I'm fueling up next week, surely prices will spike up. lol

[chessie4905]

"Creating millions of good paying union jobs"

[Dave5Cs]

Whats wrong with union jobs?

[dtcerrato]

Whats wrong with union jobs?

I enjoy my union carpenter's pensions. Pays the groceries, still!

[Dave5Cs]

Me too Brother Dan. 1147 Roseville

[luvrbus]

I get a little from Operating Engineers 450 in Houston and 798 out of Tulsa,but it does piss a lot people off Biden giving 35 billion to shore up union pension funds and shafting Social Security I hear that argument all the time.

[dtcerrato]

We get small pensions from LA Socal & 270 Jacksonville FL

[luvrbus]

We get small pensions from LA Socal & 270 Jacksonville FL

The Union and the right to work people in Texas got along good some times a Union rep would try and start something but it always went away.I would tell him take it up with state.I never could keep from laughing when one would tell me get them off the job or we going to "wobble" where did they come up with the word wobble for walk off the job all I could think of was a duck waddle

[dtcerrato]

The Union and the right to work people in Texas got along good some times a Union rep would try and start something but it always went away.I would tell him take it up with state.I never could keep from laughing when one would tell me get them off the job or we going to "wobble" where did they come up with the word wobble for walk off the job all I could think of was a duck waddle

LOL, never heard the term waddle! I guess it means to walk (off) I remember working inside the DC Beltway. Non union contractors competed with the unions by putting lots of the fringe benefits on the man's paycheck! It almost won me over but I stayed where I was at.

[bobofthenorth]

......them off the job or we going to "wobble" where did they come up with the word wobble for walk off the job all I could think of was a duck waddle

I thought that "wobble" was strictly a Prince Albert Pulp Mill word.  When the union wanted to hold a job action without actually voting for a strike they would all sit on their lunch buckets and "wobble".  Not many unions in Saskatchewan outside the Federal and Provincial governments but P.A. Pulp was owned by Weyerhauser and unionized.

I only ever was forced to belong to a union once. I worked on the University farm while I was going to school and they were unionized so I had to belong. All they ever did for me was delay my pay.  In the fall when I came back I'd start work and then after a pay period went by with no cheque I'd stop at the union office. They'd take my card out of one file box and move it to another one and then my cheques would go through.

[Dave5Cs]

Well back in the 70's I remember contractors putting four 4x4's in the ground and attaching two signs at 7 feet. One sign said Non union workers and the other said Union workers only.

The BA's sat in their trucks across the street with a camera and took pictures of those going in and out of the so called gates. They fought that for years but never got it stopped and then most of the home construction  went to non union but you had to go get your contractors license and be an independent.

[luvrbus]

I worked on a lot of projects that were government funded where  the Davis/Bacon Act set the wages union or not .

Bob Evans if I heard the word "wobble " from a union steward once I heard it a 1000 times in 20 years

[lvmci]

I guess my business is different than most of yours. Everything you ever heard about TV and Feature film producers are true for some producers. Some are great, but alot could care less about their crews. That's why unions and cameramen societies are so important in entertainment. 15, 18 even 20 hour days, no food, even no water available, when you show up for work and surprise! We're going out into the desert to shoot. Pay you have to sue for,  dangerous conditions like being on a bucket 25 ft up and a storm comes by and they won't let you down (cameras have 240 volts to run them). Alot of jobs have unknown dangers, most people don't think unions do much, TV unions are necessary to protect us...

[luvrbus]

With all the Government and state regulations now to protect the worker the Union roll has diminished in most trades for that part, now it is all about wages and benefits,When OK voted in the right to work law, with so many huge contractors like FlintCo and Manhattan located in Tulsa after the vote the unions died there

[dtcerrato]

I'm on my 50 year pin now. Retired since 2013. Haven't worked union since 1990 - been in managerial since then. Union book is still active. Only pay retirement dues @ $6/month. I don't work, full retirement but could if I want. Nice to have the option. Only consider large new  projects, power plants, refineries, petro chemical, nuclear but retirement is good.