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Huh. But I would assume that pay scales with skill? I mean I did warehouse labor one summer myself for a few months, and they mostly wanted people who could sh
by lsc 9y ago
Huh. But I would assume that pay scales with skill? I mean I did warehouse labor one summer myself for a few months, and they mostly wanted people who could show up on time, who could pay enough attention to get a list of compact disks into a shipping box, but it paid almost nothing. (And I can't really show up on time, and that level of focus on something that boring is quite difficult for me, so it didn't last long)
I assume that those who have good paying factory jobs are going to have jobs that require a degree of skill. I kinda find it unlikely that this has changed over time.
My point is just that I think people might be thinking of work that requires skill or training or something when they talk about high paying factory work. I don't think the 50s were so different that unskilled labor paid the same as skilled or semi skilled labor, and there is a lot of the latter to be done in a factory.
- brandonmenc 9y ago> I assume that those who have good paying factory jobs are going to have jobs that require a degree of skill. I kinda find it unlikely that this has changed over time. In union shops, the pay rate is dictated mostly by seniority. There's definitely some skill-based variation, but the guy driving a forklift for 40 years is likely making more than the fresh hire wiring the electronics on a train.
- lsc 9y agoI thought pay was stratified among roles. For that matter, I would assume that the two would be in different unions. I don't think a forklift operator would be in the ibew with the electrician.
- brandonmenc 9y agoafaik, large shops are usually organized by a single union. For example, GE Aviation is organized by IBEW and GE Transportation is organized by UE. The situation you're talking about, I think, is more common in construction.