Why I’m Against Unions at Businesses I Create

Re:Why I’m Against Unions at Businesses I Create by ChuckMcM on Friday November 03, 2017 @12:09AM (#15616627)

Apparently Joe has never experienced being in a group suffering systemic abuse by their supervisors in ways that are not only barely legal but generally cruel. I have sometimes wondered what would happen if the only H1B visas that were issued were issued to union shops. Sort of a pre-built defense against some of the abuses.

I have also seen union abuse, I was a member of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas as a busboy (everyone had to be) and they did not make it easy on the restaurateurs.

The bottom line seemed to be that without some oversight ability somewhere, the more powerful group (unions or management) seems to have a tendency to abuse the other group.

EDIT: I was reminded by an old friend that it was the Culinary union not the Catering union. Corrected.

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Re:Why I’m Against Unions at Businesses I Create by thisisit on Friday November 03, 2017 @12:12AM (#15616636)

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is always an apt question when someone argues against or for unions. There are no easy answers though.

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Re:Why I’m Against Unions at Businesses I Create by hiram112 on Friday November 03, 2017 @12:25AM (#15616685)

I don't even know of any tech unions in the US.

But I can guarantee you, if the typical middle manager told his group of teamsters or UAW members that not only were they going to be fired, but if they wanted their severance, they'd train their own replacements - a bunch of 20 somethings from <low wage S. Asian country> on a work visa - the manager would probably end up missing.

It's interesting just how well the elites have trained us US tech workers to be good global, corporate soldiers.

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