[TheRealVille]

I am a union pipefitter out of huntington. My dad was an ashland hand. Maybe your side did ok, I know for a fact the 80's were very lean for industrial.if you were really there, and honest about it, you would tell how the union construction faired during those years.Being a support trade for the industrial side for fitters, and boilermakers, you should remember that carpenters dont work when they dont, at least on industrial jobs

Do you know how to make a post without calling somebody a liar? I retired early under the rule of 80, and I'm not hurting any. If I hadn't done rather well during the 1980's I probably wouldn't have been able to retire early. I will say I made less than a thousand dollars from my union trade work during Carter's last year in office. The decade of the 80's my income was much better than the decade of the 70's. You say your dad couldn't find work, not knowing his career field it's hard to relate. I can tell you that carpenters, and the carpenters I know had decent work. I really couldn't care less whether you believe that or not. Maybe you are familiar enough with the history of union construction to make the unilateral proclamation that there wasn't any construction going on in the 1980's and maybe you're not. I know I worked, a lot. So you'll excuse me if I stick to an understanding of things the way I remember them, not what somebody says who admits he didn't work much during that time. Maybe your trade has too narrow an application to expect to work much. One doesn't see many boilermakers on the job when building schools, banks, hospitals and the like.

And as I have said before. Industrial work picked up substantially during Reagan's second term. The first term the nation was pulling out of a steep financial nose dive and it naturally took several years to get industrial work drawn up and financed. Nice to see you are still thinking of me even though you're vacating.