How to get a Union Job

It also helps if you are a vet. My dad went in as a mail carrier for 2 years before getting the electronics tech job. For some reason they only hired techs in house back then.

 

There are some positions in the USPS where you can only get them via a detail. Becoming a Tractor Trailer Operator (TTO) is hard because of the low turnover rate. The only way you can be hired as a career employee is if other drivers retire or die. They aren't going to hire for career TTO's if they don't have any slots to put them in.

 

Yeah, and how I sometimes get the company board confused with SS gestapo...

 

Only thanks to a union can a seasonal dump truck driver make $25/hr with overtime after 8. It was a paving company with lots of highway contracts. I don't want to know how much the guys that haul their equipment on RGNs make. I really don't want to know. Knowing my ex girlfriend's cousin was bagging $15/hr with them just for holding the stop sign that says "Proceed with caution" or whatever.

And no, that company didn't go out of business because of this.

One slight problem, though. People wouldn't quit from there so there was a huge pile of hopefuls ahead of me.

This was in northwest Ohio, middle of freaking nowhere, I don't remember the name of the company.

 

Tyvm I'm am about to be a divorced father with two kids I've been making calls with no successon finding a job in the Boston,ma area. how do i find the local union there.I'm currently residing in Florida you can contact my phone at Deleted or via e-mail@ dwpmcg@gmail.com. i was a union teamster in Kissimmee Florida would my status transfer to mass?

 

Hmm... no one mentioned the free health care insurance and OT after 8, paid holidays, paid sick days, paid vacations.
... The down side is starting at the bottom of the roasted list, you're first year will be rough working as a casual for 3 months , then the union makes the company either hire you or else get down the road

 

not with my union, you'd have to start all over again. it would have to be with the same union down there, as up here. best of luck.

 

In my opinion, most union jobs out here in California aren't worth a ####. You have to understand that management and working conditions were so intolerable at one point, that your coworkers got so fed up , that they demanded union representation. As an individual, the union will do nothing for you; that's what an employment lawyer is for. As a collective unit, the unit keeps management "in line." That also divides the workplace and over-politicizes the workplace. I'm currently in a non-union job and have the best pay I've ever made, in a niche field, and management are pretty good to me. In all my union jobs, management saw you as the enemy, as the listening ear for the prick union representative who was trying to strong-arm them into a contract. Don't get me wrong; unions are great for the right kind of fields. In trucking, the default union would be Teamsters. I can't take the Teamsters seriously. At our Local 386, the have a huge mural of Jimmy Hoffa to greet you as you walk in.

 

I've worked union and non union jobs and here's my take.

Don't work for garbage bottom feeder companies like jb hunt, I know there will be guys who brag they make 60k with them but they would have made 75k with the company jb #### bought out/underbid. Companies like jb hunt and the people who drive for them are the biggest vile threat to this industry.

2ndly, hourly with ot is more important than that piece work garbage. Those companies who do it know they're ripping off drivers.

I didn't mind driving for a union company, I personally didn't really see any benefits for it. I work for a non union company and make $5 an hr more than what the union company started me at.

 

Seems like union representation didn't really help the milk haulers out there much. Sixteen hour workdays and no real pay to show for it.