vongrimmenstein
I stand for our flag, & kneel for the fallen
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For the last 16 years I have been employed with a company governed by a collective bargaining agreement. It doesn’t get any better than that. I have not paid 1 dime for medical premiums each week, after taxes. I will have a pension later on. Will it be less than promised? Yes, it will, but I will still have an exclusively employer funded pension. Not a pension where I had to contribute my own money, after taxes. I have some protection under a CBA from un-just termination. If you steal, caught in a lie or fight, you are done for & the Union can’t help you. But that is true in any non-union job. There are many things I don’t like or agree with in the IBT Union. But that said I would not change anything. My company pays 35,000.00 per year per employee for retirement & health benefits before the first dime in wages. I know of no non-union company that forks over their profits for the welfare of their workers with that sum of money. My dues are 62.00 each month. How much does a non-union employee pay each week for family medical coverage that comes close to the Central States C-6 plan benefits? Am I pro union? Yes. Even with the decline of Unions in the last 30 years, & the ongoing problems @ the IBT, a Collective Bargaining Agreement is still the best deal in town. von.