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To: Brumar89 who wrote (367618)	6/6/2010 10:15:01 AM
From: alanrs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793826

Buying your book is one way in, the other being the apprenticeship. Often, non-union guys are moved over to union through buying there books, arraigned through the various business agents. There are typically a few locals doing this all the time, it allows them to collect dues from a large group of people, funds the unionizing effort there, and provides a second way in to a local with more work than they can man. Mostly people who buy their books have relatives in the local and it is always done with the approval of the business agent. In my case it goes back a couple of generations and I was offered the chance. Since falling off a building looked like an improvement over what else was going on in my life, I took it. I really liked the work. Some people think buying your book is the easy way in, but since they are paying you scale from the first minute they expect you to work like that, so you spend a fair amount of time looking out of the corner of your eye to see what the other guy is doing so that you can do it too while being scared out of your wits. And you spend a fair amount of time sitting home. Nobody looks out for you. ARS