This has just been released that WFXT off air employees have voted to unionize. These employees will join other Boston off-air employees in IBEW Local 1228.
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AJ Buruca
When Fox 25’s large studio building was erected several years ago in Dedham I was sent to the job by my union business agent. It was mostly a union job for the building trades.
We worked installing the glass on both the front and back of the structure. The back wall faces the employee parking lot, and here we are, two union glaziers, up on one of those boom lifts watching some real good looking young ladies come and go all day.
Now, at any Boston University construction job they have the “Ten Second Rule” meaning you could look at a person for only 10 seconds, anything more than that would be considered sexual harassment and you’d be fired on the spot. (I’ll hold those stories for a later time.)
Well, the lovelies at Fox 25, and there were many, didn’t care how long you looked at them — they’d even wave and carry on conversations with the union construction workers. Very easy to talk too and smiling all the time.
It was a great job, and I had a real good time there.
I have to say this — the union guys working on that jobsite were the best dressed construction workers I have ever seen on one job. Not sure if any of us got lucky, but I’d bet that there were a few dates being hooked-up there.
Talk about rising to the occasion!