I will say this about the unions:
They all have, for the most part, programs that take B/C students out of high school that will pay them to train them on the skill represented by that union.
The pay is good too - sometimes as high as $25/hr to learn the trade (six weeks per year) and then practice it ( 48 weeks per year) for two years.
They then must work at a union shop for two years.
No debt.
Funny - I don’t see the big tech firms offering anything like that.
I see them importing that from India.
The unions, for whatever reason, don’t even bother to make hay with it either.
I know whereof I speak - I live in one of the most heavily unionized cities in the United States, and have researched this for kids in my unit to steer them toward something that isn’t going to turn them into an educated debt slave for life.
I’m not pro-union, but they are doing something about the skilled employee problem that doesn’t involve importing cheap labor from overseas.
That latter bit is why I can’t stand Republicans. If you are for H1-B visas, you’re a traitor. That simple.
I can’t think of a more overt form of generational theft than that. At least with a Democrat, they tell you right out they are going to rob you.
Republicans? They’re solution to Democrats robbing you is to keep you unemployed.
A pox on both.
> “They all have, for the most part, programs that take B/C students out of high school that will pay them to train them on the skill represented by that union.”
YES, this was the primary benefit of the unions which were also known as guilds throughout American history. They trained and established standards for quality, but they lost this edge, see post #17.
Today there are crap unions such as SEIU, NEA, etc. They are all political leftist organs, adding no benefit to American production.