Potentially hard times ahead

[ChicagoTeamster]

49. True for some but I grew up in a Union household and was a teamster my first 2 years of College

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In Corporate, I have had a lot of co-workers who grew up blue collar or even on welfare and they understood that the need for the social safety nets and decent pay for skilled and un-skilled labor jobs. I've had managers that, like myself, bartended or waited tables when in school.

But there were also the co-workers and fellow students that grew up second generation professional people in the wealthier burbs and those are mostly the ones who didn't care about blue collar workers.