I'm obviously a part of the front-row, striving America. My parents didn't go away to college; my siblings & I did, & in several material respects I've moved up in the world from where I started, by doing well in school & becoming a professional.
Dad, NYPD. Uncle, construction union. Grandfather joined the longshoreman's union, I think - he'd been a coal miner before that. Other grandfather was a sailor, don't believe he was ever union.
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Yeah, demographically/chronologically makes sense. And can’t argue that it’s not a different economy. But unions still do what they have always done (except the core sector of the economy have changed): protect workers working conditions/raise their living standards.
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It is said, and you might know the axiom, that 20th century urban Catholicism presented three avenues for male advancement: the Church, the police force and the union.
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