What is the Point of Unions?

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  1. Jabber1990

    Jabber1990 Road Train Member

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    desperation. I needed a job
     
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    The point is to extort you or of money by making you think they are providing you with a service that is less serving of the members and more serving of your union leaders pockets.

    My advice, run.
     
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    They just took $750 outta my pay check in less than a year. If there's no pay increase after this year I'm quitting the job, but the word is the pay will be $4-5 bucks higher soon so I'm waiting
     
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    Maybe you should start organizing your fellow employees in an anti-union movement?
    Also in an anti-abusive-employer movement at the same time.

    A little organization and a call to the local TV news station might go a long way.
     
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    Dont take the job, ain't that hard. If they pay for crap, go elsewhere. Problem solved.
     
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    There is a process called desertification, the official way to remove a union.
     
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    Quit playing us all a fool ok? You know you aren't quitting, trying to make it sound like the sun wont rise come tomorrow....

    Talkin' like this "union" job was the only thing available to you,
     
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    Well said StayinBlack
     
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    somebody told me there are pluses to being in a Union

    Good Pay....which is why I make less than non-union people who do the exact same job...much less

    Good and free Benefits.....I have to buy the crappy benefits the company provides...that I can't afford to buy

    Allowed to be Lazy....they fire us if they catch us being lazy

    Good Work Conditions....which is laughable, the working conditions are terrible
     
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    Just quit bro. Problem solved!
     
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