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Obviously the main reason we’re willing to work long hours in a harsh environment hundreds or thousands of miles away from our loved ones is for the money.  Full stop.  But I think we would all agree it’s only a price worth paying if we’re sure we get to leave the slope in as good of shape as we showed up (or slightly fatter).  All joking aside, safety is really our day to day number one priority- afterall it’s our skin that will get burnt, our lungs destroyed and our backs b

Breaking news!  ConocoPhillips says USW is difficult to work with, shocking isn’t it? That’s like asking a medieval warlord what their opinion is of castles. You- “Do you like castles?”  Warlord-  “I hate them, they make things difficult.”   You- “ Well dear warlord, can you elaborate a little bit more, it seems like castles would provide a lot of defense.” Warlord-  “Yeah!  That's the problem!  Every time I want to go slaughter villagers they run into that damn castle-  it's

Reason number 83 for needing a Union-  “At Will Employment”  Have a look at your new hire paperwork- you will notice a phase there “At Will Employment”; you’ll see that same phase listed in a few other places too.  What, exactly, does that phase mean?  In short, the company can ‘release’ you for any reason, at any time, and you have no recourse.  I know the counter-argument is “yeah, but they don’t do that. As long as I’ve been here they’ve never fired anyone without cause, o

Here’s a few questions we sent our USW rep: “There’s some concerns for us [maintenance guys] since the union that was chosen largely is operations focused. Sounds like there are better unions out there that focus/ protect maintenance better than USW. Also, sounds like there are a handful of people over here that worked for USW at some point and they said as a whole were not impressed with them. " Response from USW:  On the first point, it’s simply not accurate.  Almost every