good, fair employer
Pros
I certainly appreciate the benefits that are awarded to us by both the company and the union's negotiations. among those are very competitive pay for the area, generous vacation time, and while we do work a good bit of overtime when the work schedule demands it, we have a pretty good work/life balance. compared to some of my past employers, management does seem like they care about the employee's well-being a bit more, I have personally been asked by the plant manager a plethora of times how I'm doing and how I'm liking everything,
Cons
since we do sometimes go from a "continuous" to a "non-continuous" schedule due to lack of business, the size of your paycheck will take a hit but this is simply an attempt to avoid laying off employees. while I did receive a pretty thorough three months of training I have heard from my co-workers in other departments that training can be a rushed process where they aren't entirely confident in how to perform their job. At times expectations as far as production or workload can be a bit foggy and are told to just do what you can and sometimes what you can do isn't quite enough in the eyes of supervisors who are likely getting a talking to from upper management and that rolls downhill to you.