In my opinion Mercury should stick to their decision to go to Oklahoma. If the union is stupid enough not to take a pay cut and keep the jobs here they should lose them. In my opinion if they can’t make the concessions necessary to keep the jobs they deserve whatever happens. What got me was channel 26 interviewed some woman that said she was better off on unemployment than to take the pay cut to $13/hr. I know that it would take some changes in lifestyle to accommodate the pay-cut but it would be better than losing the job. With thinking like that that woman deserves what is coming to her.
What manufacturing jobs are there left around here? Almost all of the jobs in that sector are being moved out of state or out of country. Another question to be proposed is where does a high school educated person find another job that pays $13/hr or more? I have been looking for a job and with my education it is hard to find a job that pays more than that around here.
They all had a comment about the longevity of work that they performed. The company really doesn’t look at that like they used to. My grandparent’s generation was more concerned with that way of thinking, think of the nuclear family. On average people hold 5-15 jobs in their lifetime, that shows that a person doesn’t really stay at one position for very long. If the person is starting work at 18 and retires at 65 that is 47 years of work, with the high of 15 jobs that is an average of only ~3 years and the low of 5 that is an average of ~9 years.
I may be wrong but that is my opinion. Let me know what you think.
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This is the union fighting for its life. The union could give a shit about those workers at Mercury. They have 3000 more members in the valley area that they can say they will always look out for. Make Wisconsin a right to work state and a bunch of job would come back, hint , hint we have a lot of water here.
Well, since its my tax money going to that lady who was interviewed, she should come over to my house and do some chores and earn her unemployment check!