Re:Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel
by rdtwo on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @10:57PM
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The American union is pretty bad it seems to represent the lobby arm and is totally out of touch with employee needs. It’s not a local org of your peers it feels like just another rent seeking corporate entity.
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Re:Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel
by ashtonkem on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @11:13PM
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Re:Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel
by rdtwo on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @10:50AM
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Personal experience. All our local unions got sold out by union headquarters when it came time for contract negotiations. They did things like surprise votes over holiday weekend and negotiating contracts without involvement from local reps
Re:Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel
by ashtonkem on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @11:10AM
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How many unions are we talking about here? One, a dozen, a hundred? Is it enough to draw a reasonable pattern from, or are we in “I had a bad experience with a union therefore all unions are bad” territory?
Re:Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel
by rdtwo on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @11:17AM
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Teachers union got sabotaged, machinist union got sabotaged, engineers union same deal. Different kinds of tricks but it seems pretty consistent story. Big Union hq negotiates a contract that’s not great for local members but skirts by at 51% vote under suspicion conditions.
I’m not anti union. I mean union do provide slightly better pay conditions for members but they seem to be super corrupt as well. They are like a mafia, they provide services for members and Mafia members do slightly better but it no co-op.