But wasn't sure until the boss called me into her office on my day off for a "meeting". I knew it was going to be either really good or really bad, LOL. My benies start on the next pay-period.

So often it goes the other direction.

What will you do with your new found wealth?

Eventually, I need another "newer" car; I'll never buy new, but want to pass the one I'm driving down to my other son. It will have a positive domino effect.

What a relief this must be.

Wish this would spread all over.

I don't have benefits that good but I do have them thank goodness.

We need to get together and celebrate. I'll get to give up working on Sundays soon.

working on Sundays when I was (briefly) in retail.

Seen any good movies lately? My movie-watching lately seems to be Netflix and Kindle.

Yes, let's get together.

Congrats -

The only thing was the lack of benies, and now I have those, too.

So glad to hear these stories, few though they may be.

a union shop entered a community the community cheered.
Why?
Because when a union shop enters a community, not only do union
jobs pay well, but that shop raises all wages in the community.

Congratulations!

It is so discouraging how many people are against unions. Just the term, "Right to Work" state infuriates me. The other thing that bothers me are all the employees I work with who receive union representation but do not pay union dues. I have been paying extra dues since I started this job to help make up the for those who don't. I plan to add even more now.

Thanks for the congrats!

driving a bus.

She immediately started telling me that she can save on the
union dues because California is a Right-To-Work state.

I told her Right-To-Work means Right-To-Work-For-Less.
It's breaking down the power of unions so that unions will
have to concede wages and benefits due to membership size.

This country had the strongest middle-class in the history
of the world (50's, 60's & 70's), when unions had about
33% of the workforce.

Since McIdiot Ronnie Raygun created a war on unions, the
middle class has been shrinking ever since.

I don't know why people can't see this.

Is the insurance provided through the union or your employer? Did they say why they are now going to provide free health care? Just curious if they are crediting the Trump tax cut?

Whatever the reason, I'm very happy for you Laffy Kat!

And up until recently, those who put in 25 years could retire with free insurance. They have grand-fathered that out, unfortunately, although they still get the HMO medical at a greatly reduced cost. I started too late to qualify for any of that. It's almost impossible to get a position in this organization due to the medical insurance benefits and the union. Our hourly pay is quite good as well. The reason I took this job almost four years ago was to get my foot in the door and I'm so glad I did.

Thank you!

I miss my benefits.

A tangible, life-changing benefit of unions. . If only we could get this word out to workers everywhere throughout the nation.

Just think about the economic stimulus that would be generated by providing all workers with health coverage like this.

I’m a proud Teamster who was lifted out of years of having to shop at the Dollar Store to make ends meet when my union negotiated a five year contract that increased our pay by 15% over five years. When that was over they negotiated another five year contract that increased it by 19% percent.

Just to show you how amazing that is, in the same 10 year period the rest of the administrative workers (in UC Berkeley) got two one time raises. One was 2% across the board raise, and the other was 3% merit only raise to be distributed within the department among all the non union represented staff. That was a hard slap in the face to the staff. That included all the supervisors, student assistants, lab management, HR, Payroll, Purchasing and Accounts payable, an army of internal grounds keepers, electricians, janitors, shuttle drivers, food preparers and servers and office staff for each department. Many of them belonged to other unions, but ours which represented the clerical workers is the strong one.

Congratulations!

They will really appreciate your positive opinion.

I’ll lift a glass to you tonight! I love happy news!

SO glad to hear this! I'm a big believer in unions.

You have to take the good with the bad but it's so worth it.