UNION-TO BE OR NOT TO BE
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Published: Monday, April 30, 2018 18:48
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by John Campbell
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It was 1956, and, after a year of college, I was unable to afford the next year so I got a job at GE making TV sets. The pay was equal to the combined pay of my mother and father, but after some coercion from fellow workers, I joined the IUE or International Union of Electrical workers. After a year or two of layoffs, I decided to get back into school and left GE. It was not many years later that the TV Department was shut down and moved to a state without many unions. I worked at a couple of jobs after graduating but never met another union organization until I moved to West Virginia. I took a job as plant manager in a pharmaceutical company, and the workforce was unionized. It was the first time I had encountered this arrangement.
THE MARCH OR ANTIGUN
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Published: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 11:48
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by John Campbell
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The kids marched, and I was proud of them. The school shooting in Florida stimulated teens across the country to cry out for help in being safe when they were in school. Hopefully, Congress and state legislatures would listen and do something to keep this from happening ever again. 17 schoolchildren shot and killed with many others wounded by one of their own and no way to stop this from recurring time and time again to this point. The march was a cry for help in finding answers to this problem. BUT!
