What is the Point of Unions?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Jabber1990, Jul 16, 2016.
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More thoughts in my pea brain :
I'm writing these comments in anticipation of the "union fat cat" arguments I hear from the anti organization crowd.
The union leaders in my local are paid a salary of 40 hours per week of the top rate of the highest contract in our local, plus 10 hours of time and a half. Lucrative? Yes, considering UPS tops at $38/hr or so. However, these guys routinely work LONG days and listen to ALL of the members bellyache about this or that, so the compensation is fair, at least in my opinion.
Also, the financial statements are read publicly in EVERY MONTHLY MEETING, that way everyone knows where their dues money is going. Furthermore, those financial statements are available for every member to view privately at any time.
Just trying to dispel any other myths that may be out there.bottomdumpin Thanks this. -
I personally don't have anything against unions... I just have yet to work some place where it was of benefit to anyone.
Actually been at places where it was voted down because the employees actually had a good working relationship with the company and didn't want or need a third party to get involved.
Another place voted it out since they weren't getting anything different from the non union employees (same jobs) and were actually locking themselves into contracts and were missing out on raises others were getting before their contracts were up...
Nothing against people who want to be in a Union but Unions have themselves become Big Business. Just one big entity against another big entity...
And the little guy is now stuck between them.
Good luck and stay safe
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Now it's basic contract negotiations and similar issues but all those "big" issues of days gone by have been addressed.
Although I am not pro Union, I will give them the credit for many labor related changes over the last 200 years...
Maybe they worked themselves out of a job...
And then couple that with the negative downsides, many mentioned above, and the union movement gets a double whammy. -
A driver can certainly moan and groan about an issue, can try to negotiate his own better deal, and still not with to unionize....
Those that see more pros are pro Union and those that see more cons are anti Union.
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