23,000 Full-Time Jobs Lost in June.......Is the US Middle Class Collapsing?
07-18-2014, 10:56 AM
I live in a midwest union city. The way it works here is you're either in the top 1% which are mainly company owners, the top 5% which consists of said company owners and the best paid "professional" careers, C-level positions, VPs, upper management, lawyers, doctors, bankers, etc. or...
...in the lower 95% which divides into apx. 20% non-union private sector full-time/part-time positions (somewhat stable, these companies have stood trial-by-fire so to speak, but you're worked to death if you're good), +/- 5% government related positions, and 70% union labor positions or support positions for union workers that are non-unionized (i.e. office positions that are not part of the "labor" union, so they can get fucked royally because office politics pique in those environments).
You're either in healthcare, auto industry, or commercial construction here, or a support sub-industry of one of those heavily unionized fields, or you're essentially fucked.
It's an IN or OUT scenario here. With HR departments run entirely by either women or minorities, who do you think is getting hired? There are countless complete slouch morons here with well paid jobs, and brilliant people struggling to get a chance at stability living side-by-side. Unless your connections are direct and close to the top at any firm here, it's essentially a craps shoot.
Ironically, the non-union private companies that survived the latent effects of 9/11, the housing collapse, and the banking collapse are all doing phenomenal. Go figure.
...in the lower 95% which divides into apx. 20% non-union private sector full-time/part-time positions (somewhat stable, these companies have stood trial-by-fire so to speak, but you're worked to death if you're good), +/- 5% government related positions, and 70% union labor positions or support positions for union workers that are non-unionized (i.e. office positions that are not part of the "labor" union, so they can get fucked royally because office politics pique in those environments).
You're either in healthcare, auto industry, or commercial construction here, or a support sub-industry of one of those heavily unionized fields, or you're essentially fucked.
It's an IN or OUT scenario here. With HR departments run entirely by either women or minorities, who do you think is getting hired? There are countless complete slouch morons here with well paid jobs, and brilliant people struggling to get a chance at stability living side-by-side. Unless your connections are direct and close to the top at any firm here, it's essentially a craps shoot.
Ironically, the non-union private companies that survived the latent effects of 9/11, the housing collapse, and the banking collapse are all doing phenomenal. Go figure.