G.M. Strike: 50k Union Workers Walk Out Over Wages and Idled Plants

Re:G.M. Strike: 50k Union Workers Walk Out Over Wages and Id... by phjesusthatguy3 on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:43AM (#20985196)

My union shop has two pay schedules. It's a grid of classification x seniority. If you're level 1, you make $8/hr. If you're level 6, you make $24/hr. There are yearly pay increases until you hit the end of the grid, then it's just COL increases.

There's a cutoff date where everyone before is on one schedule, and everyone after is on a different, lower-paying one. It's a concession the union made when the employer was less profitable that it had been. It's always been a dealbreaker that the two-tier system goes away, even though they could afford it.

Of course, management is doing their damnedest to make sure they don't hire anyone who could possibly join the union.

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Re:G.M. Strike: 50k Union Workers Walk Out Over Wages and Id... by maxk42 on Monday September 16, 2019 @02:54PM (#20987328)

How do you prevent someone from joining a union?

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Re:G.M. Strike: 50k Union Workers Walk Out Over Wages and Id... by phjesusthatguy3 on Monday September 16, 2019 @03:10PM (#20987497)

non-full-time employees. Or being in a state with a Right To Work law.

Which is actually worse, because non-union employees are required to be ~represented by the union without paying for that representation~ treated as though they are represented by the union when in fact they are not. So the employee reaps the reward of the union without contributing.

dammit I want to strikeout something and I can't find the correct markup for HN. I know I've done it before.

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