'Joe the Plumber' snags Chrysler job

Published: Monday, 2/17/2014 - Updated: 10 hours ago

BY TOM TROY BLADE POLITICS WRITER

Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher - a.k.a., Joe the Plumber" - announced today on Facebook and earlier on his Web site that he has landed a union job with Chrysler Group LLC.

Mr. Wurzelbacher, 40, of Springfield Township, who once was vilified as an "unlicensed plumber," said he was on his fourth day today and taking a smoke break at the time, when he was accosted by a co-worker as a teabagger, a derogatory term used for Tea Party members.

In long message, Mr. Wurzelbacher said, I was just recently hired on at Chrysler, and explained that while he's known as a conservative, he's not an enemy of private unions.

In order to work for Chrysler, you are required to join the Union, in this case UAW. Theres no choice its a union shop the employees voted to have it that way and in America thats the way it is, he wrote.

I had three days of orientation, and now Im on the job over here at Chrysler and on Day 4, Im outside on a break smoking a cigarette and right on cue some guy calls me a teabagger, he said.

He said the man called himself a "journeyman," and then quickly walked away.

"I asked him if he recognizes the training we receive in the military in the trades as legitimate, but he didnt seem interested in a serious discussion and just rushed off" Mr. Wurzelbacher said. Mr. Wurzelbacher has said that he learned plumbing in the Air Force.

The declaration on Facebook quickly attracted a slew of "likes" and comments.

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