My last employee orientation really didn’t like me saying to the group of 10 or so “anti-union speeches should be just as illegal as insinuating we aren’t allowed to discuss wages”
And also I have called a new employee a fucking idiot for saying “guys we aren’t supposed to talk about wages” when the topic came up one day and “I’m gonna get a manager” when the discussion continued.
Yeah I’ve been told by quite a few jobs not to discuss pay rise offers. I’ve always said “yeah sure” and then completely ignored them the moment I left the office.
If they hadn’t said anything at all I would have just assumed that everyone was getting the same offer the fact that they told me not to discuss it meant they were probably screwing us over. Best to find out about that.
Wtf, is that sign real? No way, that can’t be real…
Yep, I was there when this happened.
You can almost write the script where management spitballs ideas on how to prevent people from joining the union.
There are about 2000 working hours a year if you’re full time, so $700 works out to 35¢ an hour. If your union only gets you a 50¢/hr raise, it parts for itself.
You also can deduct them from income come tax time :)
No time to play video games (or any), but already unionized.
I’m a public employee in a union and we get these types of anti-union propaganda mailed to us from the creeps at the Freedom Foundation.
Save money and celebrate your rights! Public employees save an average of $900!
There’s an “I want to leave the union” postcard filled out and attached, addressed to my union leaders.
That one was St. Patrick’s Day themed.
Not posting an image because it has all my personal details already filled out
I used to get the same mailings. They send me a card to opt out of the union but nobody ever sends a card to opt out of those mailings.
it has all my personal details already filled out
How in the everlasting dystopian fuck can those absolute thundercunts even do that.
I’m a public employee, so my name is a public record. I own a home, so my address is a public record.
I’m not sure how they know which union I’m a member of, though. There’s at least 3 on campus.
You can look up the private address of any public employee in the US? That’s seriously fucked up.
Someone should do this for members of the Fraternal Order of Police.
And it’s already St. Patrick’s Day-themed!
My union dues are 1.5%.
But, my union:
Makes sure I don’t have to take my work home with me.
Says when it’s ok to be contacted by work at home.
Got us a nice pay raise that more than covers any dues.
Makes sure any training events are monitored, correctly administered and can’t be used to get rid of employees.
Provides additional insurance that make up for shortfalls in employer coverage - particularly disability.
Substance abuse and mental health help so that you can get help and not lose your job.
And plenty more.
All of it worth more to the entire group than any pain from the dues I pay. Love being in a union shop, worth it even with the few downsides.
lucky. my union reps are in the pocket of management and don’t do shit for us.
I have sadly heard this about many unions from the workers at Kroger and the Metro in Houston, TX particularly.
I can speak firsthand that this is the case for Kroger in Illinois. Their unions fight to cap wages below living wage levels, pick some of the most expensive insurance on the market, and work with Kroger corporate to eat away your hourly rate with sliding payscales based on incredibly arbitrary criteria (overnight premium, but it only counts for 4 hours of a graveyard shift as an example that happened to me).
They are actually worse than not having a union, because then they could make more than $23 an hour in Chicago.
Oh, did I mention the union contract specifically prohibits strikes and any form of worker retaliation?
Awful company.
union contract specifically prohibits strikes
That sounds ripe for a walk-out. Eveyone just GTFO and lets them shut down. All those perishables going to rot. Not much a job to leave either.
I think that’s called a wildcat strike.
Do it!
I assume that to be employed by Kroger you have to be in the union? Sounds like everything that can go wrong is going wrong.
Everyone except management.
It’s beyond fucked.
I’ve worked somewhere like that. Someone was having a disciplinary and the rep sat on the same side of the table as management.
My school bus driver union (Teamsters) are not in anybody’s pocket but they still don’t do much for us. They did go to bat for our shop steward who was pulled over for DUI and blew a .32 and then was at work driving a bus full of kids three hours later. She was eventually fired but it took more than two weeks for the situation to be resolved. I’m very pro-union but the shit is not a panacea by any means.
That does suck, and I have never been with a union where that isn’t a possibility. That’s one of the downsides whether or not they’re management’s tools. Top leadership tends to take care of itself first.
This past year with my union benefits, I’ve been able to get my wife’s and my medications, had the entire family seen the dentist and had work done, have had medical expenses covered, gotten new glasses, had access to therapy and counselling, got orthopedic soles made. All with $0 out of pocket. The dental work alone would have been $2000+ out of pocket, so I will gladly pay those union dues
There are three chemical plants in my city who make similar products where I could work. Two of them pay half of what I make per hour.
Guess which plant has a union?
Unionize and then you can buy more games.
AND have more time to play them!!!
The only job I ever had that was unionized, I really didn’t even notice the dues. I made so much more money than every other job I had, and I wasn’t even spending it because it was on a cruise ship where they fed me, clothed me, and gave me a place to sleep the whole 5 months. I had more money than I ever had at one time when I finally disembarked.
Yeah I’ve heard stories about cruise ships. Who absolutely do not want to work on one where the crew are not in a union. You are effectively trapped in the office 24 hours a day for months on end, there’s a lot of scope for abuse of personnel in that scenario.
Would you rather get endless hours of fun from a video game or blow the money on rent and never see it again?
“In the amount of time it takes to vote, you could play three games of pool. Three! Now dat’s fresh.”
Wait, I remember this in Henry V, France sends Henry V of England tennis balls You don’t want to take back continental English soil. You want to play sports at home!
The gift was not well received.
I remember this bit when Putin gave Trump a football, a gesture that Trump did not fully understand.
Living in Europe means it was my boss who helped me get into a union for my first job. Unions are important.
