What is the Point of Unions?

One reason the pay is low is because the trucking company has to pay the union "X" amount of dollars every week for each driver.
If the job you're considering is under the Central States Pension Fund, then run away. That pension fund is bankrupt. The money vanished. It''s all on Google. Decades of drivers money going into that retirement fund and now the money is gone.

 

That's strange! I get my check every month!

 

Same process to voting the union in, gotta organize to vote them out. Usually even harder

 

Have you received any letters from Central States about reduction of benefits? The government recently refused to bail out the pension fund. The union officials say the fund will last 10 more years, but the auditors say it won't be anywhere near that long. They're robbing Peter to pay Paul now just to scrape up the monthly benefits payments.

 

Jabber I remember your screen name from a few years back. What have you been up to buddy? Came off the road?

And like the others said, if the pay and benefits are crap don't take the job. That means the union is only looking to steal a chunk of your check each week, not make life better for you.

 

Well...there are unions and then there are Unions.Some are there to work for you and some are there to keep you down.Example,union rep gets a nice payoff to keep wages down.

 

100's of answers both right and wrong. Lots of variables like, which one, state, and current situation

 

Bottom line unions benefit lazy people.
The people who work and don't call in sick all of the time don't have much use for a union

 

Source: Wikipedia

U.S. states with right-to-work laws

Right-to-work states shown in turquoise.
The following states (26) are right-to-work states:

• Alabama (adopted 1953)
• Arizona (Constitution, State Constitution Article 25 approved 1946) (adopted 1944)
• Arkansas (Constitution, 1947, Amendment 34)
• Florida (Constitution, 1944, revised 1968, Article 1, Section 6)
• Georgia (adopted 1947)
• Idaho (adopted 1985)
• Indiana (State law, 2012)
• Iowa (adopted 1947)
• Kansas (Constitution, 1958, Article 15, Section 12)
• Louisiana (adopted 1976)
• Michigan (State law, 2012)
• Mississippi (Constitution, adopted 1954)
• Nebraska (Constitution and statute, adopted 1946)
• Nevada (adopted 1951)
• North Carolina (adopted 1947)
• North Dakota (adopted 1947)
• Oklahoma (Constitution, adopted 2001)
• South Carolina (adopted 1954)
• South Dakota (adopted 1946)
• Tennessee (adopted 1947)
• Texas (adopted 1947)
• Utah (adopted 1955)
• Virginia (adopted 1947)
• West Virginia (adopted 2016)
• Wisconsin (adopted 2015)
• Wyoming (adopted 1963)

In addition, the territory of Guam also has right-to-work laws, and employees of the US Federal Government have the right to choose whether or not to join their respective unions.