23 Sep 2023 1:42 pm
Biden visiting a picket line is likely a first for any president.
Jeremi Suri, a presidential historian and professor at University of Texas at Austin, said he doesn’t believe any president has ever visited a picket line during a strike.
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The summer of 1974 I used my grandmother’s influence as the most famous humorous writer in the Ozarks to land one of two spots Richard Nixon had made possible for summer seasonal teenage workers.
Instead of $2 an hour, the Marina could work us 80 hours a week at $1.25 an hour, no overtime, and not any more hours.
$100 a week then would be about like $600 a week today. I’m sitting here looking at a Queen Steel Folding Hunter $25 knife I bought that summer that I had to work 20 hours for, and the same knife is sold today for $25 only made in China.
One Saturday I was putting a motor on a rental boat for a customer and the marina manager Ivan walked out on the dock and nailed up a sign that read:
PLEASE DO NOT TIP THE DOCK BOYS
The customer walked up and saw the sign and said
Hey, Ivan, you old bastard. Why don’t you **** with me and my union brothers instead of that boy over there working his *** off for you?
Ivan started to say how much we earned and the customer said you pay those kids almost nothing and they can’t say anything when you do **** like put up a sign we shouldn’t tip them.
I knew I was going to loose my job, any second.
But I watched Ivan, take down the sign.
The Teamster got in the boat and said you tell me if that old bastard gives you any **** after I leave.
I still have his card somewhere, among my souvenirs.
He was the President of the local Teamster’s Union my second cousin is president of today.
God damn go to Detroit Joe Biden!
It’s past time a President walked with the unions.
https://youtu.be/FS8zCFN1h1g?si=jDs6PFhGiSlG-_K8
Jeremi Suri, a presidential historian and professor at University of Texas at Austin, said he doesn’t believe any president has ever visited a picket line during a strike.
———
The summer of 1974 I used my grandmother’s influence as the most famous humorous writer in the Ozarks to land one of two spots Richard Nixon had made possible for summer seasonal teenage workers.
Instead of $2 an hour, the Marina could work us 80 hours a week at $1.25 an hour, no overtime, and not any more hours.
$100 a week then would be about like $600 a week today. I’m sitting here looking at a Queen Steel Folding Hunter $25 knife I bought that summer that I had to work 20 hours for, and the same knife is sold today for $25 only made in China.
One Saturday I was putting a motor on a rental boat for a customer and the marina manager Ivan walked out on the dock and nailed up a sign that read:
PLEASE DO NOT TIP THE DOCK BOYS
The customer walked up and saw the sign and said
Hey, Ivan, you old bastard. Why don’t you **** with me and my union brothers instead of that boy over there working his *** off for you?
Ivan started to say how much we earned and the customer said you pay those kids almost nothing and they can’t say anything when you do **** like put up a sign we shouldn’t tip them.
I knew I was going to loose my job, any second.
But I watched Ivan, take down the sign.
The Teamster got in the boat and said you tell me if that old bastard gives you any **** after I leave.
I still have his card somewhere, among my souvenirs.
He was the President of the local Teamster’s Union my second cousin is president of today.
God damn go to Detroit Joe Biden!
It’s past time a President walked with the unions.
https://youtu.be/FS8zCFN1h1g?si=jDs6PFhGiSlG-_K8