It’s from 2019. And, yes, it totally backfired. Even the Bern got on it https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1126606568454279169?s=20
I’d just assumed it was fake.
Nope, that’s just how bad at marketing union busters are. Guess that’s what happens when you are selling a shit idea.
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Why are union subs so high in the US? As a part time worker I pay under a tenner a month, but even as a full time worker, I’d be paying £16.
Because Unions pay strike assistance.
For example UAW pay 100$/day https://uaw.org/strike-faq/
This way all members can participate in a strike and give it the necessary strength to achieve something. Still most Union fees are ridiciously low. Usually they are in the area of 1,5% of your salary.
Mine are currently at about two hours’ labor per month.
Well worth the cost
I wouldn’t necessarily assume they’re being truthful.
Typical dues are 1-2% of pay
The Mafia needs their cut
Better return on the dollar than Congress.
Yes, the vicious Post Office Mob. Watch out, they have the key to your apartment’s entry way!
“Explain how!”
“Collective bargaining is a means of using a large labor base to argue for better wages and benefits!”
“Woo-hoo!”
wages fly out the window
Not American, but my union gets 1% of my payment every month. But every year, almost, we get raises and benefits from this
The LYNX Corporation (of Hardspace Shipbreaker) would be proud of Delta…
Union membership sounds good and all, but think of the extra oxygen you could buy…
Man, have you seen the prices of a Sega Genesis lately?
Would you rather have no money and three video games or no video games and three money?
Perfectly put 👍
Lisa needs braces.
DENTAL PLAN
counterpoint, union dues are like real life video game cheat codes!
I’ve just looked it up and I’ve paid ~300€ last year. But only because I neglected to tell them, that I’ve started training for a new job so my dues would actually be much lower. I’ve just changed it and this year I will pay maybe 30€ or so
Edit: My math was way off ^^’ it’s actually more like 150€/year right now.
Though they do take a percentage of income before taxes, so I think it’s still very fair.
30€ for the entire year’s worth of union dues?
No, I was stupid. Fixed it
“Explain.”
The grocery/retail worker Union in my city sucks for newbs. Takes a large chunk of your paycheck every two weeks until you gain seniority after 24 months, then you can be a lazy bastard as much as you want.
Unions are great, some suck.
I should’ve been a teamster, so lazy and surly…
two years seems like a really long time when you’re in the middle of it.
But two years really is a long time to have huge chunk of already low paycheck taken out. 🫤 How do people survive those first two years?
Mooching off of samples, I’d guess.
The only thing a little ironic is that delta FAs are the best-paid of any US airline.
Their deal is literally better than all the union deals - and the unions were scrambling to match.
because those workers didn’t buy into that corporate anti-union nonsense.
I don’t understand what you mean.
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Delta flight attendants are non-union. They’ve also had industry leading pay for… forever. Delta pilots are union and also have industry leading pay.
…because delta knows that if they didn’t have that pay then they would unionize and probably be able to negotiate something as good if not better (edit: better than what they want to offer down the road. They beat the union rates so they can point at it and say “I told you so!”, discouraging a would-be unionized workforce now so they don’t have to negotiate with a union later and can get away with the sort of underhanded shit that a strong union would be able to stand up against, including but not limited to lower wages and poor working conditions.)
Just because there isn’t currently a union doesn’t mean a corporation like that isn’t kept in check by both the realized and potential presence of unions in their industry…
Unions aren’t the ones who decide salaries outright, they negotiate with the employer. Wages go up under unions, not that all union workers are paid better than all non union workers. A Delta Union would almost definitely make their deal even better.
