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NNN0LHI

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6. College? Hired into the factory I retired from before I graduated high school

Reply to grasswire (Reply #5)

Thu May 17, 2012, 03:07 PM

May 2012

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Making top union scale the day I started. The college courses I needed after hiring in were all paid for by the company.

That is what it used to be like.

Don

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