Pros
Pay is high for the type of work. Having a 4 on/4 off work week is nice at a heavy cost of losing half your weekends. Overtime can be plentiful if you don't like your family.
Cons
The plant hasn't seen an upgrade in decades. The bus depot of a lunch room is disgusting. Beat up chairs, tables that are never clean, guys snoring at the table next to you, microwaves from 1993. A complete absence of any sort of communication between management and hourly guys. NO training whatsoever. You stick with a guy, told 'do this, do that' without any reasoning then you're set loose. A union contract that is disgraceful to it's members. A bunch of crispy guys you work with who do it their way and will not accept any change. Oh, and I should mention again that the place needs an upgrade for EVERYTHING. Machines are held together by rags and wire. It's a dump, just sticking around to pay the bills.