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Re:The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track by jdavis703 on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:41AM (#16029648)
I've worked in union and non-union shops, most have been pretty unexceptionable to the point I'd never tell a story about them. You mostly just hear about the edge cases.
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Re:The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track by zifnab06 on Friday December 29, 2017 @12:16PM (#16030494)
I've seen both sides. The town I went to college in was heavily unionized. The majority of them were fine.

We once needed to hang a network rack in our building. It was on the unions work list for 6 months. We finally just did it, a grievance was filed, and the company was fined for having a non-union person do a union job.

This was sadly the norm at that job. But it wasn't anything too exciting - nice guys, too much work to do, company wouldn't get more of them.

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