I Love My Job
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May 11th, 2010 | Workers’ rights sacrificed “At the Altar of the Bottom Line”
Cross-posted from Blog at Work:
Stressed. Exhausted. Exploited. Abandoned. In a new book, Tom Juravich exposes and examines the degradation of work in the United States today. At the Altar of the Bottom Line, based on in-depth interviews with workers, lifts up the experiences of working people from diverse sectors of our economy.
Juravich, a writer, researcher, and professor at the University of Massachusetts Labor Center, spent six years interviewing workers in four different occupations:
May 3rd, 2010 | Join us at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference
Cross-posted from Blog at Work:
Want to hear innovative companies discuss the importance of working with unions to support workers’ rights, sustain the environment, and benefit the company’s bottom line?
Join American Rights at Work at the 2010 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference taking place from May 4-6, in Washington, DC.
We’re proud to join our partners at the Blue Green Alliance as a sponsor and convener of this event, and excited to host a panel highlighting real-life examples of how working in partnership with employees and their unions helps companies weather turbulent times while increasing demand for green products and services.
Our Socially Responsible Business Director, Nikki Daruwala, is moderating the panel and will be joined by Michael Peck of Gamesa USA; Molly Bordanaro, Senior Vice President at Gerding Edlen Development, Inc.; Ron Kenedi, Vice President at Sharp Solar; and William “Butch” Johnson, CEO of Flambeau River Paper.
Please register and join us at the session “Partnerships That Work: Good, Green Employers” on Tuesday, May 4, 2:30-4:00 p.m. at the Hilton Washington Hotel.
We hope to see you there.
I love my career I’m an Operating Engineer Loc150 crane operator. Absolutely one of the best Unions in America.
I love my job..I only wish we earned lower wages and were forced without choice to work longer more strenuous hours. That way when our bodies fail from total physical and mental fatigue and exhaustion, since we dont have insurance benefits (or in some cases even when we pay for insurance it never pays what it claims it will) the US government will be forced to foot the bill….thereby collapsing the entire system and causing a reset in indentured servantry. I humbly nominate all white heterosexual males to be the first to served…After all we are to blame for existing!
i did love my job and i want it back but my boss is terrible and i need someone to help me get it back i was treated unfairly
All of my quesitnos settledthanks!
I work with an incredibly dedicated group of people in a community that supports education with a school committee that understands their role for students that are appreciative and hard-working. What more could I want?
Dust, noise, fumes; they just come with the territory. But I love my job, just now.But my countrey name Banglades so Wheat do work.
Well mcaadiama nuts, how about that.
I never thought I would find such an everyday topic so enrthllaing!
My prebolm was a wall until I read this, then I smashed it.
I do the work
I am grateful to have one
Dust, noise, fumes; they just come with the territory. But I love my job, just now. I am a union electrician, work in Utah, and work for one of the better employers in our little world. We strive to increase safety, and can complain and get results without being punished for complaining. We are skilled, cooperative, and unafraid. Not many workers can say the same thing. Our employer, though powerful, tries to empower and respect us, and knows that through harmony we give more each day with our tools and minds. I have been a union worker for over forty years, and am grateful for it, despite the exposure to toxics, including asbestos (1970), loss of hearing, and arthritis. I have dignity, respect, and a decent paycheck. I will be continuing my college studies soon at the University of
This is for anyone who is browsing and thinks they can go it alone. I work for a great union. It is funny, while all of you received little or no wage increase the last two years, I got 4% and 4.5% the last two years. Not to forget about the 2, 3, and 3.5% the three years before that. So after my union dues over the last 5 years which = $4250, I now make $7800 more each year. I only pay $200 a month for one of the best health insurance plans in the country, after Congress of course. By the way I have ZERO deductible. I would like to see anyone of you bargain for YOURSELF with those terms and not get laughed out of the office (probably fired). That is why this country needs Unions. The corporations have everything stacked in their favor and that is how they want it. Solidarity! BRSinIL Local 20
Gee I remember a time I was getting 8-12 % increases every 6 months UNTIL Unions came in and got 3%. of course those union dues were 2.8% but hey who’s counting when you had lazy workers who were getting 0-1% increases excited for 3? Unions are great for those in life threatening jobs,. Sorry but Office work not life threatening.
I love my job ’cause I own the biz, It’s some of my customers I hate ’cause they want something for nothing!
I actually Loved my job. I was the organist at a small Methodist church, drawing a salary of 10.5K per annum. The choir director was a person of minimal musical talent and ability but I saved her skin many a time. She never spoke to me about the choir music, what she wanted to do with it, how she wanted the choir to learn it. PLUS she wantonly copied copyrighted chorale music even though all across the first page of each piece was printed “Do not Copy”. When I received my first paycheck I saw I was being underpaid. I called it to the attention of the person making the payroll and she corrected it immediately. Another person in the church who had minimal ability at the organ wanted my job so badly he hounded the PWB (powers that be) to get me out of there. He was a member of the American Guild of Organists, one of whose by-laws states that you do not push another person of superior ability out of such a position. Nevertherless he coddled and cuddled up to the Powerful woman in the church, the minister and another really OLD woman in the church for them to work on getting rid of me. All the time I was employed, I noticed my bi-weekly cheque had unemployment insurance taken out each time. When they fired me I applied for such insurance. With my lawyer I had two hearings before the state Unemployment Insurance board, which ultimately turned me down because the church had never paid into the unemployment insurance state fund. The minister said all employees had received a notice to that effect. Of course I was left off the list to receive that notice. However the whole thing was a case of “don’t do as I do, do as I say.” I say we don’t deduct of unemployment insurance, but they always made that deduction from all the employees’ paychecks. I was astounded at what I ultimately discovered – no other employee ever looked at their deductions each cheque so were not aware of this. This church was Paxton Methodist in Harrisburg Pa. The A-hole who finally got his hands on the job, now has an assistant – he is so incapable of doing it himself.
EVEN IN THE HOUSE OF GOD—-THERE ARE EVIL ONES—-
I thought finding this would be so arduuos but its a breeze!
I work for a small medical device startup company in Suwanee, GA. My boss is great – he knows his stuff and appreciates others who do so. Our CEO actually has morals and scruples, plus the product we develop will help millions of women around the world.
it is like going to the gym and getting paid for it a grate work out year round or should I say a bust your ass work out while getting yelled at for good payLOL
I am speaking on behalf og my children. My daughter is a single mother of two. Teaches in San Diego Ca. Makes 50K a year and they want to cut her salary by 8%.
My son with a family of four lives in San Diego. Made 80K last year WITH OVERTIME and missed out on a 7K rebate in taxes because the cutoff was 75K.
The reality is San Diego cost of living is not nearly as low as about 80% of out country.
50K a year with a family of three IS poverty level here.
75K a year with a family of four and your living paycheck to paycheck.
Just look at housing costs. Why can’t there be adjustments depending on what area of the country you live?
I’m speaking on behalf of my daughter-in-law who USED to love her job. She’s worked for Wells Fargo for 16 years and is a loan officer. Half the loan officers were fired, she was one of the lucky one’s who was kept on. Except, she was ordered to double her quota and loan only to commercial interests, no home loans. She hasn’t been able to meet quota and has received warnings that she will be let go. This since the crisis. Its ugly out there.
I sympathize. As a teacher I’ve seen my colleagues laid off and the remaining teachers are asked to do more. Wells Fargo, like most of the banks, is doing very little for the community. I would encourage people to do business with a bank or credit union that focuses less on profit and more on serving the community. I often hear how, in this economy, you are “lucky to have a job.” Sure, relative to the unemployed, we’re lucky. But, we’re not very lucky compared to the CEO’s whose salaries are in the millions each year, hundreds of times that of the working folk who keep their companies going. We’ve got to unionize. And we’ve got to fight to keep our jobs from being outsourced.
DON’T SHOP AT WAL MART! people don’t realize how much that would help our outsourced job crisis. I stopped shopping there a long time ago and I save alot more money going to krogers, and helping local buisness.
My job was a transport pilot in the Marine corps. I got out as soon as my time was up, because I was flying with co-pilots who were often hungover from drinking bouts during squadron Happy Hour the nights before. Our CO wanted everyone to attend these Happy Hours but I refused, because it made for unsafe flying with many lives in our hands. We carried 72 military personnel and five crew members.
A co-worker and I were stacking drums of chemicals inside a trailer from the dock. They weighed about 250 lbs. ea. He would roll them on the forks and I would take them in the trailer then he would slide them off the forks. The terminal manager came out and told us to stack them by hand because we might damage one. We looked at each other and continued to use the fork lift. The tm went back to the office. We were covered by a Teamsters contract.
Bob Etherton
I love my job because I’m Union. I love my job because we collectively bargain for raises. I love my job because I have a legal contract. I love my job because I can’t be fired for no reason. I love my job because I am empowered and demand respect. I love my job because I’m Union. You should be too!
I couldn’t agree more! I’m proud to be UNION.
To Gary Gibson: Don’t count on Pres. Hoffa or anyone in this regime to do that for you. The representation and pride you speak of has dwindled and is not coming back during this administration. Remember YOU (the members) are the UNION.