I was in the Chemical Workers Union in the early 80's working at a granular fertilizer plant, and my top pay then was $6.80 an hour. Then in 2000 I went to work making frames for an automotive supplier, and as a UAW worker, I started at $11.00 an hour, and topped out 5 years later at $16.29 an hour. A lot of folks talk about how overpaid the union workers are, but I don't think $32,000 a year is a huge amount of money these days...not when some investment bankers are making several MILLION dollars a year, and they create NO product. As a UAW worker, we received an annual "profit sharing" that went into our 401(k) account [notice...I said "401(k), and NOT a company-sponsored pension plan]. So in order to make the company contribution to our profit sharing account larger, it was in our OWN SELF-INTEREST to do our best to help the company make maximum profits.
Yet there are still those who will cite the UAW as one of the unions that are "anti-company." I don't guess I'll ever understand why some folks think that way...but then, some folks never let facts get in the way of their opinions, which are always 100% correct, in their own eyes.
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Today's Featured Article - The Nuts and Bolts of Fasteners - Part 2 - by Curtis Von Fange. In our previous article we discussed capscrews, bolts, and nuts along with their relative hardness and thread sizes. In this segment we will finish up on our fasteners and then work with ways to keep them from loosening up in the field. Capscrews, bolts and nuts are not the only means of holding two parts together. When dealing with thinner metals like sheet tin, a long bolt and
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