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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (474008)4/22/2009 12:46:30 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575597
 
I live in TX now. Have lived in IL and WV. Was an union ironworker apprentice when I graduated from college got a white collar job and dropped that. At the tim I dropped that work, they were already bringing in blacks into the ironworkers union, but things havent changed all that much in those type unions though.



To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (474008)4/22/2009 1:12:04 PM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575597
 
I was on a Union job in Phillie 3 years ago, out of 200-300 union guys 2-3 were black