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When I was a union rep there would be people that would bitch about the $70 bucks a month or whatever the dues were. I would explain that without the union their pay would be far, far less (not even bringing up the benefits of work hours, vacation days and whatnot). Like the “all taxes are theft” morons, the words often fell on deaf and willfully ignorant ears.

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42 points

They probably have no idea what the Homestead Strike was.

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139 points

I hate paying 10 dollars to get 25 dollars. The worst.

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Because these people don’t see the bigger picture. They see they could get $35 if they didn’t have to pay the union. What they don’t see is that the union is the reason they’re “getting” $35 and without the union they’re definitely not going to get $35. And obviously any non-monetary benefit (such as more days off) goes way over their heads.

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It’s not even just about money, and anyone who’s worked a union job will tell you that. Many of the benefits of unions aren’t completely measurable (e.g. correcting the balance of power in favor of workers, even if just a tiny bit).

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91 points

Even if it wasn’t a bot, why is she mad at unions when she’s barely scraping by? Unions would help her with that

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Union payments in Iceland are like $20 per month. I’m pretty sure union workers get at least 20 cents more per hour than non union workers to break even.

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union busting tactics in the us are basically on toddler level. remember the pamphlet that was sent out to united airlines workers when they were unionising? “union dues are $600 a year. why not spend that money on a new videogame system instead?”

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That’d still be a bargain. Many unions in Iceland pay 75% of psychological help, glasses and exercise subscriptions by doing some collective bargaining magic. They also provide “time shares” type of vacation bungalows and more.

All on top of higher salaries, better working hours and working conditions and will provide legal assistance in case of wage theft which my sister had to use one time.

Basically a quality of life upgrade that pays you money even though it may not say so on the pay slip.

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7 points

In the US standard is 2.5 hrs/month. I can’t say for certain I made that back cash, but by the time benefits and job security were added i more than made it up

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8 points

If you are asking for the arguments to make sense if you think about it for longer than 3 seconds, then you are asking too much.

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I’ve saved a lot of headache by realizing people are dumber than I think they are

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3 points

I think thats the joke

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70 points

This should be illegal to the point that whoever is responsible for this tweet should be jailed for st least 5 years.

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If Amazon paid someone/company to do this, then it definitely is illegal. But likely no jail for anyone, just minor fines chocked up to the “cost of doing business”

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And people will lap this up as a genuine Amazon worker. Disgusting.

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Yeah, no, that should be jail time for whoever sighed off on this.

Make a few examples and people will very quickly stop signing off on shit like this

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Except the king of disinformation bought Twitter. And “we” not only keep using it en masse, but basically elected him as president.

I dunno about the rest of the world, but the US is way past the event horizon, and the chance of ever arresting people like this is less than zero.

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This whole election is nuts. RFK Jr. is gonna gut the FDA and NIH so they have to outsource more and draw more lawsuits which will feed his own stupid advocacy firm, or he’ll switch his company over to consulting and score millions more by outsourcing the FDA to his own workers. And Elon is obviously going to benefit himself. And Trump is gonna wreak havoc on the economy in the long run with his tariffs if he’s being serious, and his border policies are a disaster… this isn’t going to go well.

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7 points

the whole point is to kill the FDA and NIH

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69 points

You’ll get a lot more salary with Unions…

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As a Single Mother With Two Children I am afraid that the Union will be bad, aktuly. Are you disagreeing with me? You simply don’t understand what its like to be a Single Mother With Two Children. Why are you attacking me? I am a simple Single Mother With Two Children who is too weak and tired to argue with you.

As a Single Mother With Two Children I am just asking questions about why the Union is bad and now you, a big Pro-Union Thug, are hurting me and my Two Children who are very small and vulnerable.

Stop! Please! Help! The Union is Hurting Me! It’s just as I anticipated!

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11 points

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Well yeah we know that!

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She probably does, too. She is a shill.

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14 points

She’s not real, we just went over this.

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Hey now, yer fancy pants logic ain’t wahlcome round these parts. - Muricuh

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I was part of a union. I got paid minum wage. My manager was the union rep. I had to work a role that I was literally allergic to.

Despite this, I’m still pro-union. Just not that particular union.

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My manager was the union rep

I’m like 80% certain that’s illegal basically everywhere innit? Conflict of interest

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I’m sure it was very illegal, and nobody did a thing about it.

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They may also be using the term manager very loosely. At my workplace most of the supervisors are union, but they have 1 top person at each department of each worksite who’s excluded from the union (not really management, but a company representative at least).

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I’ve never heard of management being in the same bargaining unit as the rank and file. Odd.

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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

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  • All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
  • Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
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