Word: welder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assistance. Says a young writer who was among the anonymous hundreds that Harry Maurer taped for the oral history Not Working: "I always get the feeling that the people at the umemployment office think I'm a bum or something." Says another of Maurer's subjects, a welder. of the umemployment rites: "You get a feeling of rejection. Especially the feeling that they're better than...
...October, 643 arc welder's jobs paying $4.11 to $9.88 an hour went unfilled, as did 315 jobs for electronics technicians, 1,279 openings for insurance sales agents and 532 slots for machinists at $4.16 to $9.80 an hour...
...honor. "He could have said that he didn't want to give the Federal Government an excuse to bust the union and that he was ordering us back under protest. I think he blew it." Sandi Engel, a controller at Illinois' busy Aurora center, is married to a union welder who opposes the strike. Says she: "Every morning he tells me, 'What you're doing is illegal. You're going to jail...
ALASKA's not just a pipe-welder's dream. Writers, too, have trekked North, seeking new horizons and best-selling gold in an unexplored territory. Those who care to learn what life in Alaska is really like will have to end their leather-upholstered musings about the wilds with Joe McGinnis' Going to Extremes...
...expected to grow. Even some of the most ambitious Cubans have found the adjustment to the U.S. extremely difficult. One example is Amado Benitez, 29, who found a home in Chicago with his half sister just two days after his arrival in Florida five months ago. A professional welder, Benitez went looking for a job, but he could not find one because of his lack of English and the city's high unemployment. To make matters worse, his immigration papers authorize employment only until Jan. 15. Meanwhile, like most other Cuban refugees, he is ineligible for welfare. Trapped...