I take it the primitive was waxing fat and prosperous during the lousy Bush economy.
One wonders what happened four years ago, to change that.
The person lived in a Union state. a non right to work place. When the Company moved out of state the workers could not go with the company and were stuck with working with company's that took a chunk out of their pay check just to allow them to work. If they were hiring. Few leave a Union job unless they retire.
To take a $5.00 an hour cut in pay with no Representative to protect their job was impossible for them.
The workers were so use to job security they had no idea that the Federal laws and OSHA covered them as much for free as the Unions did and sometimes better. No retirement but that was up to the workers to get a 401K or savings bonds.
The right to work states are seeing a big influx of industry moving in, a way of life that Union States do not have. Come to work on time every day, do your job and you have a job. Don't show up or slack off, then you are out the door.
Example I worked with a woman woman that was in an accident. She spent 2 weeks in the hospital, she was fired for not coming to work or calling in.
She took this to the labor board and her lawyer had subpoenaed her hospital records. Company claimed she never conacted them, nurses notes said the hospital did in fact call them and had the name of the person that took the phone calls. Result was she was paid by the company for legal bills, the medical insurance bills cut off after she was fired and she drove off in a new car.
She had no use for a Union, the State and Federal Government covered her.
