By the time an auto worker is bolting shit up, the design is done. The engineering is done. The process by which it will put it together is done. And the QA program to verify that the process is done correctly is done.

Any union field rep will tell you the same thing, 90% of our time is dealing with 10% of our people, but though they may be fuckups, the company is ignoring the contract, which spells out the manner in which fuckups are to terminated, and that cannot stand. Honor thy contract.

How many cars do robots need?

With Icahn’s activist shareholder philosophical takeover of Wall St, the people who own the companies seemingly don’t give a fuck about company longevity either. I’ll bet the UAW and it’s workers care more, since they just can’t pull out financially and move on to greener pastures to fuck up like the Icahns of the…

In a union. I pay about ~1500/yr in dues. I make 2x on the check (at least), plus benefits over what non union makes. The dues are not outrageous.

Workers just make the cars. If the cars are shit, it’s the designers and engineers, and management’s fault for approving the designs and engineering. If the assembly is shit, it’s the manufacturer’s process and QA’s fault. If the company can’t figure out the process and the controls, they get what they get.

Workers have rights without having to pay unions for those rights that came about because unions fought for those rights. ftfy

Tell that to the tech workers at Google, Apple, Adobe, and Intel, whose companies all committed a crime by collusion on wage fixing. That’s a form of theft.

Here is the word everyone needs to know on unions as well as on corporations, governments, NGOs, churches, etc.; all of them are made up of people. It is not the…

Shortening deadlines, yeah, welcome to the boom in Vegas. 18 months from ideation and conception by the grand poobahs of the casino class to grand opening was the norm for 15-20 years.

I’ve heard all about St Louis for years. It is one of the best locals in the US. I had two coonass pipefitters from Lousiana telling me about it when I was 19. They drove up, “it’s got fences like a prison, barb wired, tall. We spoke into the intercom, and told them we were there for work, they were annoyed we…

That’s basically your response; that a sparky should be making 5 bucks an hour, painting with a wide brush, gross generalization, etc. The laughable part here is you. But you outed your self as an old git, who’s dollar value is stuck in 1978 and not adjusted for inflation. You’re not the arbiter of what the market…

Oh christ, no one is more over paid than firefighters. And lazy? Paid to sleep for crying out loud. And crooked too, oh jeez, the ones here in Vegas got caught scamming the county for hundreds of thousands in overtime, each.

So 1988? Decades later it’s morphed into something else entirely.

What do you do and how much do you make?

When my dad did contract administration for a power company, they specifically required subs to be prevailing wage contractors. During the boom in LV, he routinely canceled the contracts of contractors who stole wages from their employees by not paying them properly. If they’ll cheat their employees they’ll cheat you.

Union Pipefitter, who checked out working in San Jose local jurisdiction, and the 52/hr for a union sparky would likely be wages only. Pipefitter wages were roughly that and fringes pushed the total package to high 90s. That would apply to SJ, Oakland, Burlingame areas too. SF was low 100 total package. Sac high 80s.

Yeah, and the extra recline I got wasn’t comfortable for me. The extra width though was. Would repeat as long as the cost isn’t crazy. I made up for it by not sleeping the entire 13 hours on the way back and “running” the plane out of Glen Livet, at which point I switched to bourbon. Nice try Flight Attendent Dude,…

Next time! Thanks.

Happened to me on the flight back to LAX from Sydney. A whole row, empty but for me. Joke’s on me; sprung the extra 400 for Premium economy on Qantasa and the arm rests don’t go up.

I know this is an old post, but that’s not how torpedoes work, they don’t have to strike the vessel. They just have to blow up underneath it, and let the shock break the vessel’s keel. They don’t want to punch holes in hulls, they want to snap them in two.