Posted by Buzzman72 on June 12, 2009 at 20:05:13 from (74.129.220.44):
In Reply to: Re: us and them posted by OliverGuy on June 12, 2009 at 17:23:40:
About those "UAW workers with no education"...
That's the EMPLOYER'S FAULT, for not putting MINIMUM STANDARDS in force as part of their hiring criteria. At the UAW plant where I made frames for Ford Explorers, a high-school education was a MINIMUM to get in the door [diploma or GED was required]. THEN there were the written tests on math and verbal ability...then, after hire but while still a probationary employee, we had to go to a 5-day MIG welding school [40 hours], and had to pass the welding tests to keep our jobs. Then, once on the plant floor, we had to prove we could still do the job under assembly-line conditions, or we were OUT. LOTS of probationary employees didn't survive the 60-day probation period.
So if unqualified, uneducated employees were the norm, it was because the EMPLOYER allowed it. The plant where I worked did a pretty good job of screening out the uneducated posers and losers. Sorry the employer you refer to had LOWER STANDARDS than where I worked, but it certainly wasn't the UAW's fault. Lay the blame where in belongs...on low standards set by the EMPLOYER. The UAW plant where I worked set higher standards, and the employees got NO union representation until they survived the probation period.
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