# Plants/Vehicles affected by American Axle strike **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [May 5, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/plants-vehicles-affected-by-american-axle-strike/47945 "2008-05-05T15:40:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 34
**Author:** ![turbociv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@turbociv](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/turbociv)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/plants-vehicles-affected-by-american-axle-strike/47945/34 "2008-05-06T18:04:57Z")
Lol, if i had a dollar for all the so called “engineers” that sit on discusion forums all day long bitching about the union payed laborers. I myself am a laborer at a plant and wish i was in some sorta union. I barely crack 32k a year working a manditory 50hrs a week at a job that took over a year to train me on multiple heavy industrial machinery. I am a skilled laborer making shit because im considered a wrench monkey at my job. but i stay because of excellant benefits and a wife that depends on me. Ive been trying very hard to get into some sorta union payed job so i can atleast earn a decent living for myself. Its very depressing. The sad part is im more capable/smarter then alot of engineers but because i didnt get that so called :engineering degree" im stuck. competition for jobs in wny is rediculous and my 2year degree isnt even good enough to wipe my ass with. its very depressing.☹ --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/plants-vehicles-affected-by-american-axle-strike/47945)._