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In reply to the discussion: In 1981, I was a full time stock clerk at an Ohio Big Bear grocery store making 12.60 an hour [View all]DENVERPOPS
(9,047 posts)was the shot heard all over America in Regards to Union busting......
A week after he fired them, every trade organization, plumbers, electricians, Heat/AC firms lowered the pay by half knowing that the Unions would receive no help from the Federal Government enforcing laws on the books......
In Denver, an electrician's pay went from 22.00 dollars and hour, and 26% in fringe benefits, went to 12 an hour and no benefits.
A recent study stated that the trade people were earning more in 1969 than they are today, when inflation is considered......
I think that is pretty true all across the middle class in the U.S. .............................
Last week, I asked a checker/cashier at Safeway what the current pay was for a Journeyman Checker.......She told me 16.50 an hour.
I told her I lived with a gal in 1980 who was a journeyman checker at Safeway, and she earned 22.25 an hour...........