Not just Izzy’s country, and nothing new. In 1981, I took a year off of college to work at the local nuclear power plant. The Laborers’ Union there had a waiting list in the hundreds, and started at $17/hour, which was d@mn good money for unskilled labor back then. You’d see ten laborers at once around a task. Two would work for a half hour, then would trade out for the next two, while everyone else sat around drinking coffee and chatting. The shop steward hinted I could jump the queue and get into the action, but idiot me had to go back to college.
Not just Izzy’s country, and nothing new. In 1981, I took a year off of college to work at the local nuclear power plant. The Laborers’ Union there had a waiting list in the hundreds, and started at $17/hour, which was d@mn good money for unskilled labor back then. You’d see ten laborers at once around a task. Two would work for a half hour, then would trade out for the next two, while everyone else sat around drinking coffee and chatting. The shop steward hinted I could jump the queue and get into the action, but idiot me had to go back to college.