I’m not wading in to make a substantive comment on the union discussion. Just want to point out that one reason you don’t hear about the ILGWU much these days is that the union merged a while back with the other major textile workers’ union, ACTWU (Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union). I believe the union is now known as UNITE (United Needle [something] and Textile Employees, or something like that. Amalgamated built some good affordable cooperative housing for its employees back in its glory days, in Chelsea, LES and possibly the Bronx, too.
Since my father worked for the MTA I can tell you, the only way he was able to support his family was by working 70-80 hour weeks. The top base salary w/out overtime for and MTA worker is 45K. Not nearly enough to raise a family in NYC, even in an inexpensive area.
ET – Maybe if you worked in the city instead of just visiting you’d find it more congenial & meet interesting people. If that’s not likely & you know from having spent a lot of time there, I wouldn’t take it.
My brother in law is a teacher at one of the specialized NYC public high Schools. It’s a good school with a good rep but he tells me they now have 9 Assistant Principals to answer to. And they aren’t a charter school. It’s the new system of management the BoE has set in place.
Posted by: bxgrl at February 3, 2010 11:22 AM
Given my position on unions, this is certainly not surprising.
DIBS- this is not the union’s doing. It’s the City’s. They have a Principals training curriculum and it is the City who set this up.
TextperV, the gig is in Virginia?
“haha! not all CHinese men are smart on advice, only math.”
I know many of them who can’t understand the mathematical odds that the casino is pretty much going to be the winner most of the time!!!!!
I’m not wading in to make a substantive comment on the union discussion. Just want to point out that one reason you don’t hear about the ILGWU much these days is that the union merged a while back with the other major textile workers’ union, ACTWU (Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union). I believe the union is now known as UNITE (United Needle [something] and Textile Employees, or something like that. Amalgamated built some good affordable cooperative housing for its employees back in its glory days, in Chelsea, LES and possibly the Bronx, too.
My friend particularly liked Arkady and M4L’s advice. I said it’s not surprising since Arkady is very wise and M4L is Asian, so he must be smart.
She said, “haha! not all CHinese men are smart on advice, only math. no wonder what he said was one huge run-on sentence.”
(My friend is Chinese, by the way, so I think that means she can say that)
Arkady, do a Forum search under Electrical or Electricians. I know Bob Marvin has recommended his a few times. I trust who Bob recommends.
Since my father worked for the MTA I can tell you, the only way he was able to support his family was by working 70-80 hour weeks. The top base salary w/out overtime for and MTA worker is 45K. Not nearly enough to raise a family in NYC, even in an inexpensive area.
ET – Maybe if you worked in the city instead of just visiting you’d find it more congenial & meet interesting people. If that’s not likely & you know from having spent a lot of time there, I wouldn’t take it.
My brother in law is a teacher at one of the specialized NYC public high Schools. It’s a good school with a good rep but he tells me they now have 9 Assistant Principals to answer to. And they aren’t a charter school. It’s the new system of management the BoE has set in place.
Posted by: bxgrl at February 3, 2010 11:22 AM
Given my position on unions, this is certainly not surprising.