TRACKHOE71
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does anybody know of any work going on at JFK airport in the next couple of years? If so, is it mostly non - union/ rate or is it alot of union work? thanks
does anybody know of any work going on at JFK airport in the next couple of years? If so, is it mostly non - union/ rate or is it alot of union work? thanks
I was wondering if anyone knew the steps into getting into a union. I live in central jersey which is the local 825 How do I go about getting the training to run the heavy equipment . Do I have to get hired by a company first . I need more training on the machines . I have have some experience but not enough
Thanks I appreicate that I'LL look into it. I have a friend who is a long shoreman near newark airport over there by IKEA and he even tried to get me into there its not easy. I'm just looking for a good paying union job with the benifits of course, and minium lay offs . YEAh good luck right I know.OPEN TO ANY SUGGESTIONS
or work in the garbage industry, it has to go somewhere..........................:drinkupYep! Avoid layoffs! Become a registered nurse or medical technician.
As a Mill operator the unions rarely come up with people that know how to run them. Over the years I've always had some "oiler" over my back in certain union heavy districts. Not that I minded or anything cuz they always up and left after the 8 hour deal.
People have varying opinions on Unions, I'd tend to disagree with the Tactics of them going smashing up offices or intimidating people into joining them as "powerful". In my opinion thats nothing more then gangland krap. Not much different from a buncha east LA gangbangers driving around shooting at people, how much respect should an organization be given who really only guarantee a pay rate, they cannot do much more then that. Half the time they can't even get a good operator where he needs to be because seniority and "friends", "relatives" come first. If thats a legitimate way of them doing business, I'll enjoy watching them fold, which shouldn't be too far off the way America is going.
I recently had the pleasure of working for someone who bought two asphalt milling machines owned by an old school, now out of business NYC paving contractor by the name of Co-Fire.
Both Mills were Roadtec RX60C models, they had been run by union operators since new. One had an auto greaser on it which is really a bad idea on Milling machines due the variation of interval greasing being to different for certain areas. Needless to mention both those machines were some of the worst cases I've ever seem of just plain old lazy worthless operators...
If thats union, I'll never be interested. Recently I heard the contractor that had the NYC DOT milling in Manhattan had a mill on fire right out in the road. I'll skip the obvious blame issue but....That same contractor I had gone to see while they were in Brooklyn about work (I didnt care about union concessions because milling is termed as "specialty") and from what I saw them doing in the yard with the mills and the condition of them; decided at that point I couldn't work for those people.
Some of the union guys I met were good, decent folks, I have nothing against them at all. But to call the tactics the union organization uses like what I read above as acceptable is rediculous no matter what the reason for it.
The union didn't like that, so one day they came into the new NYC corporate headquarters and trashed the beautiful walnut elevator panels just to get their point across.
The got the power, man, better respect it, or else.
Well Buckethead, here in Phoenix they have oilers -- or helpers -- if you like, on milling rigs. Last December I was offered a position operating one on the 101 freeway in Scottsdale, and there was an oiler assigned to the machine along with an operator. That outfit had two or three more machines on the same job and they all had oilers. Non-union outfit too.
By the way, I've worked an occasional project where the non-union contractor had to have a highly qualified operator and could not find one locally except thorough the operators union. They worked out a special deal with the union and brought in a fella or two from the hall for the time those machines were on the job. Happens all the time.