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Originally Posted by ngdawg
Wow, that $218 a month is a bargain!! We pay $105 a WEEK and have a yearly deductible of $2000.
Neither company is in business now. Heide Inc paid its workers less than $9 an hour making and packaging candy(as of when I left, 1992). As an accounting clerk in the office and not in the union, when I left I was making $10.25 an hour. They were bought out by Nestle (I think) several years ago. The second, Aberdeen Mfg, is/was a men's clothing manufacturer that supplied suits and coats to major department stores such as Macy's, Penney's, etc. It'd be impossible in that case to know what you're buying because the names were of the stores it supplied to.
The problem with sticking to a buy union ideal is that you might not be aware if there was a union or what the workers were paid, etc. "Made in the USA" is not an indication of fairness, decent wages or unionization.
Union in itself is not an indication of fairness.
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Youch! $420/mo? We pay $260/mo for full coverage on the wife and kids and emergency coverage on me. Dental and vision for all of us. I have a $500 deductible per incident and they have HMO coverage that I can't recall having a deductible paid even when my wife had surgery on her foot. This is through her European owned casino. I'm starting to suspect we have a pretty sweet deal.
You have to remember that Wal-Mart workers are making $8-10/hr for normally less than 40 hours per week. When you hack $55 off of each week's check it really hurts. It's certainly not like my situation where $260 out of a living wage still leaves plenty of money for the monthly nut.
I agree that Union Made might not stand up to what I want it to but it's at least a measure of security. I don't want children slaving away 12 hours a day to make my clothing. I get to feel smug and have quality garments to boot.