My father also had his accounts take a dive.
Your father made one poor decision.
It's called a Strike Fund. One of the small unions I was in had a 7 figure strike fund at their disposal. Yes, it was in a managed account (mostly fixed assets). Pension funds are for gambling, apparently.
LOLOLOL, STFU
No, it is clear my father made poor decisions.
In the era when capitalism had no restraints the union was a vital and needed organization.
Depends on the union, the local laborers and hod carriers get benni's the day they start. Int-ext. specialists takes a certain amount of hours worked, usually enough to bank three months of healthcare, vaction and ret. is based on your %. Wood butchers unknown but sure close the same. The only disadvantage your dad had, was people like BnB and his dad filling your dads head full of lies about the union and why it was best to stay with them and starve. It is never too late to get in the union, and your dad should have looked into it. Why should your dad have to pay a bunch of people and buy all sort of insurances to secure a future for himself, why shouldn't his hard work been enough?No, it is clear my father made poor decisions.
However this delineates from my point exactly. My father made the same decisions as the union tradesmen, and lost out in the end.
He was late to the work force since he spent the sixties being a pot smoking traveling carpenter. When he finally got his shit together he began working as a finish carpenter on custom homes, he did well on his own, a job was offered he accepted.
This was his first actual job where he was able to begin saving, he POURED massive amounts of his salary into his savings and investments until the day he was let go. He claims to have put an average of no less then 50% of his salary during the last six years of his employment there into savings and investments.
I tend to believe him because he saved for such a short period I would have expected him to be living in my basement at this point. His accounts also lend credence to his short lived but zealous saving nature.
I also do not presume to know the full extension of investments and trusts my father may have made without my knowledge. Maybe he has been supporting another family for a decade or so.
The fact remains that he has been at a disadvantage when I compare him to union workers.
Oh, also benefits, it took him forever to actually get to a point where he had medical benefits! Bummer. Union guys get that pretty standard I think. No?
Who knows?! Nowadays we just remodel my home and drink with the tradesmen at the bar. The conversations are great.
More of your bullshit propaganda. Who says you can't fire a alchy? the only ones who's jobs are secured like that are the higher brass. You see it is real easy to get rid of a bum out in the field, you lay them off. Bring em in the office, sit em down and say sorry bub, not enough work to keep you on, call the hall and the unemployment office, good luck. The company's don't pay for my rehab, I should know I have failed 3 or more union drug tests. My insurance, that I work for, pays for it if I went to kaiser out patient. Anywhere else I was on my own. Why can't you face the fact you know nothing of what you talk about. Fill that Y variable in with something and show me your formula. I guarantee you can't make that formula make sense to any one here.
Higher brass, eh?
So why do you blame the unions? Alcoholism and gambling are considered addictions and classified as an illness or disease and therefore not a grounds to terminate. You should blame the federal govt. for that. I suppose you would like the power to fire someone in a wheel chair, or cause they are overweight, or maybe cause they have MS. I've got you nailed to a T.
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except where its stamped on the bag "not safe for human consumption".
i'd gladly live in UB america..hamm's for everyone!
that's because red never looks anything up. part of the troll charm.
really? from where?..i'd like to apply.
They have to do that.except where its stamped on the bag "not safe for human consumption".
hell, publix has to put a "not safe" sign in the freezer where Frosty Paws is..seems the stamp on the all over the box is not enough.
me.
as long a there is a dollar menu at mcd's; that's my choice.
