| CURRENT EVENTS Bessemer’s Amazon plant making news... [updated: Votes are in. No union]
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Agreed. And in this case, for a place like Bessemer, they are getting paid rather well...
I came close to joining the union. I even put in the paperwork and gave it to my leader who was one of the stewards for the union. She gave it back to me a few days later because she got upset with the way the union was handle the agreement. The only time I was talking to about the union was the day I was hired. 19 years later I try to join. But a few days and the CEO and president of the company to get falsified paperwork to steal money. That was 11 years ago. The only ones that got hurt in this was the workers.
planomateo
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If you don't like the job, get a different one.
I'm just not a fan of unions.
I'm just not a fan of unions.
XXL TideFan
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Try managing a tool room/machine shop in a UAW supplier plant. Beezos has it coming
Saw this earlier today but it wasn’t from a source I recognized. Here is the WSJ reporting it though... find the irony, win a prize!
XXL TideFan
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I really work on not hating these people. Lefties, commies, socialists and partakes ofcorporate cronyism that is.
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Votes are in...
www.wsj.com
Amazon Workers in Alabama Vote Against Forming a Union
The defeat of the warehouse-facility union drive hands the tech giant a victory in its biggest battle yet against labor organizing, after a campaign that fueled a national debate over working conditions.
www.wsj.com
rocknthefreeworld
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My parents were union members at their cotton mill. Through the years the union got them things such as, vacation (mill shut down twice a year for 1-2 weeks and they drew unemployment for it), overtime (the legally required overtime pay), paid sick leave (really more you found someone who would trade days with you or you didn't get paid), and workers comp (the legally required amount). When the mill shut down to move to Mexico they made a big to do about how they had negotiated great benefits for those being laid off. In reality everything my parents got was state stuff given to all unemployed people anyway. The union did help them by giving them all the paperwork they needed to fill out though. After all the years of paying dues they pretty much got exactly what they could have gotten anyway.
This type of experience with unions is not uncommon in the South. And folks wonder why we don't like unions usually.
This type of experience with unions is not uncommon in the South. And folks wonder why we don't like unions usually.
What is more telling to me is that unions don't fight for a high production rate that would keep jobs here instead of Mexico. Paying overtime, vacation time, benefits, and other incentives that companies do has to come from profits. That makes a company less competitive and more likely to move to Mexico or China.
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