By Chris Bergeron/Daily News staff
Posted Sep 07, 2010 @ 11:56 AM
Mike Bagge believes Labor Day was made a holiday for all the hardworking folks like him.
“You know what I think? Christmas is for kids. Thanksgiving is for the whole family,” he said in his shop on Kuniholm Drive, Holliston. “Labor Day is my holiday because I’ve worked so hard all my life.”
Since 2003, Bagge, 51, has owned East Coast Perfection Coatings with shops in Holliston and Framingham. He works 50 hours a week with 10 employees covering pliers and wire strippers with electricity-resistant insulation.
The work is hot, hard, unglamorous and critical for anyone working on live electrical wires.
Bagge called his workers – five native-born Americans and five immigrants – “incredibly hardworking guys.” Asked to rate their work’s difficulty, he described plastic coating as “an 8 or 9 on a 10-point scale.”
See the full article from “Northborough-Southborough Villager”