The company paid 100% of our health plan, vision, dental.  Profit sharing, 401K, paid vacation..  The things a real company with good workers would do. Not because it was forced to, but because the owner wanted to keep the employees.  As far as equivalent pay scale goes.. I have no idea.  I do know that when I was a...more

I was in a union right out of high school. IBEW actually.  They still send me information. The last packet was a list basically saying who and what initiatives I should vote for, as well as an Obama 2012 sticker. Then I worked at a gravel company after that for 5 years. We won a bid for a large freeway project. Then th...more