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The alternatives that coal miners have are garbage. They are being asked to leave union jobs with decent pay, decent benefits, protection from unfair treatment
by otakucode 8y ago
The alternatives that coal miners have are garbage. They are being asked to leave union jobs with decent pay, decent benefits, protection from unfair treatment, and embrace radically lower pay, radically worse benefits, and active unfair treatment. You can't expect anyone to get excited by those prospects. If computers were outlawed tomorrow, would you sign up to stock shelves at Walmart with a smile on your face and with desire to gather in the mornings and sing the Walmart loyalty chant or whatever it is they sing?
- CocaKoala 8y ago> he found more than one hundred federally funded courses covering everything from computer programming to nursing. That's the first sentence of the article. You're telling me that in a list of over one hundred course, covering everything from computer programming to nursing, there's nothing with pay and benefits comparable to coal mining?
- nradov 8y agoI wouldn't be thrilled with it, but sure I'd take the Walmart job if I could get it. I've done worse jobs before.