Union

[Chazz]

My place of employment currently does not have a union, although we may get one by later this summer. While i have heard some good things about union's, i've also heard my share of bad things as well. I was wondering if anybody here would be willing to share their opinion of unions' through personal experience or otherwise. Thanks!

[Guest NYankees]

Be prepared to pay your union fees.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

With the wages they can get, gladly. The GM workers nearby make nearly the most money in the entire region outside of the doctor/lawyer types.

 

There's much more troublesome things with unions otherthan dues.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

I do actual work at my job, so naturally I don't belong to a union, nor would I want to.

 

Seriously though, even though I'm usually anti-union, sometimes I think they are a necessary evil. For me it depends on what the job is and how a union treats pisspoor workers. Police unions = OK, although one danger is the union protecting shitty cops. Union for cashiers = N*gga plz. Don't get bitter when managment gives you the boot and replaces you with a self-checkout machine because you are expecting to be able to support a family and pay a mortgage in suburbia just by scanning groceries.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I actually agree with kkk there.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

The first time is always the hardest, but in no time my young apprentice you'll be pitching pennies at pregger teen-agers just to see them waddle over from the table they're waiting on and try to pick the money up from off the floor.

[MrRant]

Speaking of unions...

 

Plumbers Protest Installation Of Waterless Urinals

[Art Sandusky]

Unions and this country don't work well together.

[Hogan Made Wrestling]

I belong to the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation at the University of Oregon. We are the 3rd oldest union of graduate student teachers in the country. I'm currently a steward for the mathematics department and this coming year I am probably going to be nominated (unopposed) for the position of overseeing our health trust (i.e. the fund that pays for our health care plan). We have a really strong union that has done a great job earning us strong contracts with the university and an effective health care plan. We are also a major force in AFT-Oregon (despite the fact that a lot of the other unions hate us and think we are "just a bunch of kids making trouble") and at the most recent AFT-OR convention we pushed through most of our agenda.