It's from 2019. And, yes, it totally backfired. Even the Bern got on it https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1126606568454279169?s=20
161I’d just assumed it was fake.
55Nope, that’s just how bad at marketing union busters are. Guess that’s what happens when you are selling a shit idea.
57Total c/nottheonion territory.
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I was able to buy a new tv and a ps5 for the family this Christmas, because my union benefits saved me so much out of pocket expenses throughout the year that I could afford it. My union also made sure I got vacation pay and sick pay throughout the year so that my paycheck didn't take a hit when I needed time off. My union made sure that I got a guaranteed increase in pay this year so I can afford to live next year.
75Why are union subs so high in the US? As a part time worker I pay under a tenner a month, but even as a full time worker, I'd be paying £16.
74Because here they have to fight constantly and legal battles are expensive as shit in the US.
112Because Unions pay strike assistance.
For example UAW pay 100$/day https://uaw.org/strike-faq/
This way all members can participate in a strike and give it the necessary strength to achieve something. Still most Union fees are ridiciously low. Usually they are in the area of 1,5% of your salary.
75Last I was in one it wasn't nearly that much, but that was a couple decades back. My best guess is that so many places try to kill the unions by passing 'right to work' laws where people are not obligated to join even in a union voted shop. It makes it pretty tough to force a good deal when only a fraction of the workers are in and paying while they probably live in an area where people aren't concerned about working across a line.
36Woah, a correct reference to “right to work” state. Nice!
I can also attest to the higher dues because of RTW policies. I was once in a union that included all the restaurant service workers at an American airport. The servers and bartenders made excellent money and it was a viable career, thus the union made sense.
But, our union also included the food court workers, who were generally younger and didn’t view their job as a career. Most of them opted out of paying dues as health care and future raises weren’t their concern.
There was also the issue of the servers paychecks being too low to pay dues as well. Since taxes had to be paid on credit card tips, our checks were often $0 so we had to manually pay dues. That never happened though…
17Getting a workplace unionised is an uphill battle here too. Unless your company already has an officially recognised union, no one wants to join. I tell them it's £9.65 a month and they're like, yeah forget it.
What bothers me about where I work is as a bike technician, we actually have the same job title and pay as the till staff who do no skilled work at all. And on top of that, we also have to cover for them (for instance, even though I work in the bike section, I was forced to do car seat training even though the auto section till staff should be the ones doing it). So we're doing skilled work, plus their work and we get the same pay. But no one is interested. They'll grumble and groan, but actually doing something about it is too much to ask.
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Mine are currently at about two hours' labor per month.
Well worth the cost
28I wouldn't necessarily assume they're being truthful.
17Typical dues are 1-2% of pay
1The Mafia needs their cut
-40Better return on the dollar than Congress.
21Yes, the vicious Post Office Mob. Watch out, they have the key to your apartment's entry way!
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"Explain how!"
"Collective bargaining is a means of using a large labor base to argue for better wages and benefits!"
51"Woo-hoo!"
wages fly out the window
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Not American, but my union gets 1% of my payment every month. But every year, almost, we get raises and benefits from this
44The LYNX Corporation (of Hardspace Shipbreaker) would be proud of Delta...
38Union membership sounds good and all, but think of the extra oxygen you could buy...
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I'll take the mystery box! A boat is just a boat. A mystery box could be anything! It could even be a boat!
35Narrator "It was a sausage"
6Simpsons did it first
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Not to forget the union puts restrictions on how often the boss can call you out, so you may actually have the time to play those video games.
27Man, have you seen the prices of a Sega Genesis lately?
21Not American but my union deduct 10 dolars from my payment every month to cover union costs. It does it with thousands. Is it too much? Yes. But everyone got 10% payment increase this year plus some benefit increases too. i'm not going to complain
21$120 a year is too much to justify a 10% raise?
That's some bad cost benefit analysis.
29Maybe the pay is so low to begin with that a ten percent raise is less than the 10 dollars in union dues a paycheck.
$520 a year isn't much though, if your first 20 minutes of work for the pay period pays your dues then you have another 39.66 hours of money that is for you and your creditors.
Edit: did bad math. Look further down comment for adjustments
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I'm not American either, and I have no idea how much I pay my union. They've made sure I had several increases in salary in addition for the yearly rise, and I get several insurances for a better price than if I were to buy them for my self.
Last year the collective raise wasn't that high, but they made sure my colleagues with lower salary than me got it instead, and I expect the same thing will happen this year.
I'm totally fine with that because that is what I voted for to happen. My salary is good enough for now, and I want to make sure others are taken care of.
14Totally, my union got us bonuses in our last negotiations. The lower your salary the higher your bonus. The only way to have it be fair at all as I see it.
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Would you rather have no money and three video games or no video games and three money?
19Perfectly put 👍
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counterpoint, union dues are like real life video game cheat codes!
17Lisa needs braces.
17DENTAL PLAN
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I've just looked it up and I've paid ~300€ last year. But only because I neglected to tell them, that I've started training for a new job so my dues would actually be much lower. I've just changed it and this year I will pay maybe 30€ or so
Edit: My math was way off ^^' it's actually more like 150€/year right now.
Though they do take a percentage of income before taxes, so I think it's still very fair.
1630€ for the entire year's worth of union dues?
4No, I was stupid. Fixed it
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"Explain."
6The grocery/retail worker Union in my city sucks for newbs. Takes a large chunk of your paycheck every two weeks until you gain seniority after 24 months, then you can be a lazy bastard as much as you want.
Unions are great, some suck.
I should've been a teamster, so lazy and surly...
3two years seems like a really long time when you're in the middle of it.
But two years really is a long time to have huge chunk of already low paycheck taken out. 🫤 How do people survive those first two years?
3Mooching off of samples, I'd guess.
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The only thing a little ironic is that delta FAs are the best-paid of any US airline.
Their deal is literally better than all the union deals - and the unions were scrambling to match.
-12Unions aren't the ones who decide salaries outright, they negotiate with the employer. Wages go up under unions, not that all union workers are paid better than all non union workers. A Delta Union would almost definitely make their deal even better.
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