I don’t know how many of these folks go that far back with their union time…
The one way above who mentioned a MEBA engineer hating on deckies strikes me as one of the SUNY grads who worshipped a certain cantankerous old timer hired for several years as the Empire State’s reefer engineer. Sadly, kids idolize miserable douchebags like that instead of realizing he was/is actually hated by all the other engineers and led a pretty unremarkable/generic career himself… They want to be like them for some reason and all it does is perpetuate silly hateful rhetoric and distrust between folks over something as basic as what your license says on it — not to mention making them look like total idiots.
