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30 years ago, factory jobs were on a fixed workweek with known job securities and benefits (and were often unionized too). The important part of this article
by zzzeek 12y ago
30 years ago, factory jobs were on a fixed workweek with known job securities and benefits (and were often unionized too). The important part of this article is that it points out that all of these floor workers are temps, where each day they could be out of getting paid on a day-to-day basis: "if there was not any work, they would send us home early without pay. "
- brador 12y agoThose were skilled factory jobs. For low level factory jobs (like moving boxes) you had to wait in line each morning and the foreman would pick names. If you got work that day, great, if not, go wait in the next line or come back tomorrow. Let's not glorify either side.
- zzzeek 12y agowell then you are also responding to what I'm responding to; the comparison of the highly dangerous skilled factory job to the low level warehouse job is not an apt one. One is a career and the other is not.
- tsotha 12y agoWorking warehouses was always a terrible job. I was in that industry 20 years ago, and while they didn't have computers to measure your every movement at that time, the rest is the same - minimum wage, no job security, no benefits, and as soon as the work was done you were sent home without pay. By the way, union penetration in the US peaked at something like 30% and has been slipping ever since (to about 15% of private sector jobs today).