When a company spends money to discourage collective bargaining, whether that's in production of "training" videos, or closing facilities, or punishing organizers (who are more likely to call foul on that illegal activity), it means that they think that will cost them less than bargaining with labor in good faith.
They know they're taking advantage of labor, and it costs them less to keep the bootheel on than it does to negotiate. Seize the means of production.
The funny thing is that when employees are unionised and getting paid fairly, they can spend their time working on serious stuff instead of constantly fighting against being exploited.
The professional and successful companies know this well enough. It's all the personally owned shit stores that think the owner himself can outsmart everyone by stealing nickles from their own employees to finance the underbidding of other companies and thereby delivering a shit product. Grow the fuck up already.
Quality work is done by qualified people who takes enough pride in their work to join a union of people who does similar kind of work, instead of winging it like a poorly paid servant.
I feel like part of this needs to address the common claim that the businesses in question will go bankrupt as a result of the increases in pay for labor.
It's great that unions increase pay. But that hasn't been the argument I've heard against unions. It's that increasing the pay will tank the company and everyone would shortly be out of work. Which I don't believe at all, but that's the common argument against unions
There are consulting companies that specialize in preventing unions from forming. If the law allows it (most US states do), they'll get everyone to watch anti-union "training" videos. That's not even getting into the historical violence that companies have inflicted on striking workers.
Companies would not do these things if they thought unions were no big deal.
I am asking once again for your support of unionization and strikes. While the WGA strike is over, the UAW, Kaiser employees (soon-ish) , and of course, SAG-AFTRA, still need your support.
Because this is only the beginning.
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"Here's proof that his year's organized labor uprising is working:"
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"340,000 UPS workers won $30 BILLION in raises, more time off. and more full-time jobs after threatening to strike.
"Writers beat the greedy Hollywood CEO's replacing them with AI and won increased residuals, healthcare, and pension contributions.
"Half a million Fast Food Workers in CA won a $20 minimum wage and a seat at the table determining future wages, benefits and working conditions.
"Half a million California Health Care Workers won a $25 an hour minimum wage."
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"Unions work. You can bank on it."
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Where I work now, Big Lots, is the greatest example of a company that needs a union I have ever seen. However in the less than 6 months I've been there the staff has almost entirely changed and we've gone from about 15 employees to about 8. It's the worst corporate nonsense, the worst pay, the worst hours, the worst benefits, the worst recognition, and the worst job in general I've ever fucking had by a MASSIVE margin, so naturally it forces employees to watch the strongest anti union video I've ever bore witness to in my life. I would love to start a union here, but by the time I even talked to everyone half of them will have quit already.
It's great to see but it's going to take many many years to undo the harmful negative spin that has been entrenched onto multiple generations
You got to fight for a fair share of the revenu you're generating those greedy fuck would not even pay you if they could
All of the money gained by the unions will be passed on to consumers, further concentrating everyone except billionaires into a class between middle and poor. What unions are doing are unquestionably good but we NEED it to be in tandem with a wealth tax and actually holding billionaires accountable.
If you'd like to join a union: https://join-a-union.github.io/
But hyperbole and my friend said.
You can also look at other countries that have been through all of this already. For example Austria. Now in 2023 nobody would ever dare to say that a Union is a bad thing.
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Are there any numbers of jobs that were eliminated because of fast-food restaurants automating their kiosks and/or going delivery only?
Also, sure this works in pockets of America but most people are still voting for Trump, against healthcare, against education, etc.
Lead poisoning, hookworms and propaganda has done it's job. USA is on the brink of extinction, parts of it will survive for sure (CA/NY/TX?) but it's going down. It's a damn shame, for many reasons. Too bad the people of the nation aren't caring for it.
In reality won't these costs just be passed on to the consumer because there is absolutely no chance corps are going to stop worrying about shareholders and profits above all? I'm all for unions and people making more but it all seems like a waste if the cost of these changes just translates to more expensive everything.
love the UPS and healthcare workers stuff...but...fast food? I'd like to see every fast food place go out of business. Celebrating a bit higher wages from mega-corp fast food places seems a bit...odd, considering fast food is a cancer on society. although i guess if paying the higher wages squeezes them more, i'm all for it. But seriously...who in their right mind even goes to fast food places these days? it's basically setting fire to your own money and health.
