Madison Firefighter Worker Solidarity march at Wisconsin Union Protest

Madison Firefighter Worker Solidarity march at Wisconsin Budget Protests.
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[teabaggersblow]

@1957welder I did alot of pipe fitting and fabricating when I was coming up. Welders were my buddies on the job and off. We drank together in the honky tonks and fished together in the bays. Things were good and republicans were not trying to take my good wages away by killing unions. I never worked for a union but there were many strong unions in this area and my wages stayed competitive with union scale. It is time for the silent majority to rise up against republican job killing policy.

[unionlu122]

GOD BLESS UNIONS, AMERICA NEEDS THEM! my father is a retired union firefighter and i am a union carpeter in philadelphia. America rose above this anti union stuff before. TOGETHER WE BARGAIN DIVIDED WE BEG! dont let these teabaggers take what people have died for. exaample the molly mcguires (caolminers in pa)

[benjaminnetanyahoo]

So I'm forced by mandatory payroll deduction to join a club that wont let me have say merit-pay. That takes my money and buys off progressive liberal all knowing democrat polititians like Risser who then hides out of state for a month like a fucking senile coward.

MMSD can't graduate half the fucking blacks but man does Nerad have excuses. These cocksuckers work for us we don't work for them and they do a lousy fucking job. I'm gunna puke now. RIGHT-TO-WORK. It's called freedom.

[benjaminnetanyahoo]

I used to be a firefighter the hardest part was doing nothing all day. Walker knew better than to reign in these a police benies because they would strike like teachers and call in sick for weeks. These assholes are so fucking brainwashed with their public educations they think it's workers rights to be forced to join a special interest group. VOLUNTARY MEMBERSHIP. And these gubmint dependants can't tollerate individual liberty. It's the borg collective. I can represent myself.

[1957welder]

@teabaggersblow because he couldn't get away from the job to cash them (working 7-12s hanging glass on all the high raises). I call Bobby Graham at the Ironworkers Local 84 and we talked about those days, he said, he doesn't think those days will ever come back. When I moved to Baton Rouge, LA. I enrolled into the Pipefitters apprenticeship school Local 198, because I am a Pipe Welder also. I wanted to have a skill in Pipefitter/Welding along with Ironworking when I moved to New York City.

[1957welder]

@teabaggersblow I told him my story and he drove me to Geens Point Mall and bought me a used car so I could stay in school. After I finished the 4 Allen Center, I was dispatched to STP (South Texas Project) in Bay City. I moved to El Campo and my Landlord lent me $200.00 dollars til my first pay check. Texas People are BEAUTIFUL. I never wanted to move. My first Ironworking job I was making over $1000.00 aweek, one of the apprentices in my class was holding 4 checks over $1200.00 a piece

[1957welder]

@teabaggersblow Then you do remember those days when the GULF COAST WAS BOOMING??? I would have retired as an Ironworker this next year with a healthy pension if Reagan and Bush were not elected. Texas was my home, every person I met were helpful and giving. I just turned 25 when I moved to Houston, I drove my mother's Pacer from Sacramento, California to join the Ironworkers appr.school. My car broke down and I thought, I had lost the a chance, til I met this Jehovah's Witness Ed Rostram,

[teabaggersblow]

I am old retired pipe fighter/boiler maker turned supervisor. Got too lazy and my benefits were so much better. Thought about going back to work but really not in a big hurry. I fish and have fun but my youngest son is an apprentice in the electrical union. He likes it. The last job I had 20 minutes from my house was paying $50 a day 7 days a week and $36 an hour. We were working 50+ hours a week. It was good. Made me real independent. I do have a boat note though.

[teabaggersblow]

@1957welder You have a very good point. We stopped making petro chemical plants about late 80's early 90's. I know at Shell they could not even get a permit to break new ground. They had to place new units on the land that an old unit was already sitting on. Mothballed. And I stayed working for a long time mothballing units from here to Texas City.

[teabaggersblow]

@1957welder I agree. I am retired but have relied on prevailing wage from unions up and down the ship channel. Glad republicans did not fight to stop the EPA and OSHA when I was working. I worked many a turn around that was required by these government regulatory agencies. And Texas is a cleaner and safer place around these petro-chemical plants. Even the union operators know that things now after W. took over are worse than ever. Now the operators have to beg for higher standards.

[1957welder]

@teabaggersblow I have the pictures of the BOOM, I just wished, I would have kept the job ads so I could show the people what the Jimmy Carter years did for the USA. It has been proven all through history whenever a Republican get in to POWER they DESTROY AMERICA, A FACT!!!!