[AT] Re: Union Labor

[Louis R Godena]

Dean;

I didn't realize you were such a hot-headed cuss:-)!

I belong to the same union my father did (Local 94, Carpenters) and, though 
I haven't worked with the tools for some time, I still keep my book, just in 
case...  My son is a third-year apprentice in the Painters and Allied 
Trades, and two of my daughters are in SEIU, so I guess you could call us a 
"union family".   When I worked I put in a good day for good pay.  I 
wouldn't have it any other way, though my take on economics is probably a 
bit different than that of most of you.

My twenty years in the union has led me to experience the good and the 
not-so-good, and I am almost always at some level of disagreement with many 
of things unions do, but the alternative preached by labor's enemies I have 
always found to be much worse.  Corruption?  Yes, but it reflects the 
corruption that is at the heart of modern America, where people don't even 
know what the truth is anymore, much less the difference between right and 
wrong.   How could it be otherwise in a nation where "Buy Cheap and Sell 
High" is practically the state religion?

Louis Godena

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 3:58 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Union Labor


>I would like to share my only personal experience with a union. It was not 
>a
> good one. I worked for Western Electric for a couple years in the early
> 60's. I don't recall now whether I was required to join the union or not 
> but
> at that particular time I needed a job and this was about as good as I 
> could
> find in that particular period in NW Iowa. I joined the CWA, Communication
> Workers of America, and was a member for awhile attending all the 
> meetings,
> etc.
>
> However, I just could not condone what the union was proposing and doing. 
> I
> won't go into detail. In a fit of anger at a Union Meeting I turned in my
> Union card. I resigned from the union without really knowing what the
> ramifications might be. Well, I found out. For some odd reason my work