Men v. machine / security v. autonomy
Worker week #1
Top: The job of maintaining equipment at the Nostrand Avenue subway substation in Brooklyn is a hard one, but comes with job security and dream benefits that would make even Bernie smile. MTA union jobs typically provide full health insurance including dental and vision through retirement.
Below: Operating a rural sawmill brings control over work life and freedom from bosses, but America’s self-employed must figure out their own often inadequate health insurance and retirement schemes. And working with tremendously heavy logs and great spinning saws is hard on the body and dangerous. Serious illness or injury can mean catastrophic, bankrupting costs.
NOTE: Yesterday’s Opposable on chickens had pity for the birds and outrage at corporate overlords, but ignored the people who actually do the hard, dirty, dangerous labor of the raising and killing. This week will be all about a wide range of workers.
Lots of women deal with machines -- sewing machines, looms, parts manufacturers that don't require as much physical strength as cutting logs. Machines come in all sizes. National Health Care is essential for a country to really care for its citizens. The USA looks backward in this regard. SOOO much money yet, people must hold onto a job, horrible, dangerous or not, to secure health insurance. It doesn't have to be this way. Backward.
Interesting why men go for machines. My brother had an erector set. No pun intended. I was never allowed to play w/it. Also health insurance in America is a shame. I wonder how many women work for MTA