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.
How to get a Union Job
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by latanea, Sep 21, 2007.
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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.
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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 -
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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.
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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.sdaniel Thanks this. -
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