Will UAW Strike?

[MossRoad]

Sorry in advance...

 

[Eagle1]

Some people prefer production work. It's rhythmic. I enjoy installing roof shingles. One after the other. Nothing to think about. I enjoyed loading newspaper inserts into an inserting machine. Nothing to think about. My wife and I enjoy packing lunches for school kids at the food bank. It's just hours of repetitious work. In the end, you accomplished a task. That's good enough for a lot of folks.

After working in IT for 25+ years, I enjoy my current handyman-type job a lot more. I just putter around and fix stuff all day. It's borderline mindless. Quite satisfying.

I started as a tech for inserting machines after USAF. Learned real fast I'm good at fixing things but get bored way to easy to run one for more than few minutes. Worked there 23 years but never the same job for more than few years. Kept learning new skills and moving up/lateral.

 

[MossRoad]

I started as a tech for inserting machines after USAF. Learned real fast I'm good at fixing things but get bored way to easy to run one for more than few minutes. Worked there 23 years but never the same job for more than few years. Kept learning new skills and moving up/lateral.

Yep. I had a unique job where I had to learn "all aspects of newspaper production'. It was a several year program to develop me into a 'big picture' person that could see how every job/task/process/device affected production. I'd get put into a department, learn every person's job, perform their job, learn how to operate, maintain and repair every piece of equipment, then manage the department for a month. Then off to the next department. It took several years. When departments were short of labor, or a manager would go on vacation, I'd fill in and, while there, make note of production processes and issues that might need attention. So I'd run the inserting machines, repair them, install/upgrade them, repair all the conveyors, stackers, dock equipment, everything in the packaging department. Sometimes it was nice to just take a break and stand there and load inserts. Nothing but you and a few skids of Home Depot ads!

 

[NoTrespassing]

Yep. I had a unique job where I had to learn "all aspects of newspaper production'. It was a several year program to develop me into a 'big picture' person that could see how every job/task/process/device affected production. I'd get put into a department, learn every person's job, perform their job, learn how to operate, maintain and repair every piece of equipment, then manage the department for a month. Then off to the next department. It took several years. When departments were short of labor, or a manager would go on vacation, I'd fill in and, while there, make note of production processes and issues that might need attention. So I'd run the inserting machines, repair them, install/upgrade them, repair all the conveyors, stackers, dock equipment, everything in the packaging department. Sometimes it was nice to just take a break and stand there and load inserts. Nothing but you and a few skids of Home Depot ads!

I vaguely remember machining parts for a machine that inserted add cards into magazines years ago. If memory serves, the parts had small slits and used air to blow the cards into the magazines. In a job shop you never knew what you were going to machine next.

 

[lilranch2001]

Once upon a time, I thought a daily newspaper was indispensable, but as life has gone on and newspapers are basically a thing of the past I find I don’t really need it anymore. I’ve got my phone to read the news on.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

GM to 'rip off the Band Aid and significantly cut costs' by laying off 1,300 workers amid its transition to EVs

The layoffs will affect workers at two plants in Michigan as GM winds down production of its Chevrolet Bolt and Camaro models.

fortune.com

 

[MossRoad]

I vaguely remember machining parts for a machine that inserted add cards into magazines years ago. If memory serves, the parts had small slits and used air to blow the cards into the magazines. In a job shop you never knew what you were going to machine next.

Our's used vacuum suckers to pull each add off the bottom of the stack, and gripper fingers to pull them down and drop them in the open newspaper pocket.

 

[MossRoad]

Plus, the only thing left in town is the left leaning liberal rag and in it everything orange man is bad and everything old fallen down feeble man is good so, we all know that can’t be very accurate

What's the name of the paper?

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

We don't need unskilled workers anymore.

 

[MossRoad]

https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/high-paying-unskilled-jobs

 

[lilranch2001]

What's the name of the paper?

Most of us around the area call it the urinal gazette…..

 

[MossRoad]

That doesn't help.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/high-paying-unskilled-jobs

$13/hr is a high paying job?

Not in today's economy

 

[lilranch2001]

If you’re as well-versed as you sound like you are about area newspapers, then you can insert a word that sounds like it and you will know what paper I’m talking about.

 

[lilranch2001]

Mcy dees is paying more that $13 an hour these days…..

 

[MoKelly]

$13/hr is a high paying job?

Not in today's economy

True.

My wife’s tennis facility is required to pay $20/hour to part time folks who work at the pro shop desk. These folks sell rackets, balls, candy, drinks and assorted stuff. Empty trash. Make sure rest rooms are stocked and clean.

It was $15/hour last year but the City passed a “living wage” rule that requires anyone with a city contract (the tennis facility is in a city park) to pay the higher wage.

Couldn’t hire sufficient folks at the $15 rate. We’ll see how much better it gets at $20 and how much of an impact higher court rates will have on usage - and therefore number of employees needed.

 

[lilranch2001]

It will not take long before having manicured parks inside of a city will be unsustainable.
Maintaining parks is very expensive and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to operate a tractor or a mower but paying them ungodly wages, will speed up the taxpayers resistance to hike their taxes

 

[MossRoad]

If you’re as well-versed as you sound like you are about area newspapers, then you can insert a word that sounds like it and you will know what paper I’m talking about.

I know about northern Indiana papers. You've mentioned you live in Southern Indiana.

I'm only familiar with 3-4 of those, primarily around the Bloomington area.

 

[MossRoad]

$13/hr is a high paying job?

Not in today's economy

Where did I say anything about high paying jobs? I was showing that there are still many unskilled jobs available. However, with automation, those will be fewer in the future.

 

[lilranch2001]

I know about northern Indiana papers. You've mentioned you live in Southern Indiana.

I'm only familiar with 3-4 of those, primarily around the Bloomington area.

I have never mentionioned living in Southern Indiana, and you and I have discussed locations in and around Wabash, Huntington and Fort Wayne in the past….