go through union instead of your supervisor or manager
So they’re threatening workers with a good time? Interesting strategy.
Legit had someone from my last job start going on a break room tirade about how “those damn unions just want your money” but strangely had no rebuttal when asked why giving them 2% of your paycheck is a bad thing when they negotiated your RAISE to be 15% and your health benefits add up to an additional savings of around 20%.
I’m SO SORRY you’re getting extra money and healthcare rather than the NOTHING you had before.
Nowadays I like to print up cards with unionizing information on them, facts vs myths, links to read up more, anti-union tactics, links to join unions, links to find HELP setting up a union, and basically anything I could cram into a business card. Now I leave about 10 of them any time I go into a non union store.
Given how previous management has reacted to “someone” leaving these in the break room, I’m sure I’ve caused a few sleepless nights.
It’s the same people that don’t get socialised healthcare. Union fees are like a tax that’s used to pay people to do work for you, in the case of worker unions, people that negotiate working conditions, benefits, and wages, in addition to lawyers that can both offer legal advice and representation should you be in need of it.
Here in Sweden we have lots of different unions. We have a tenants union that negotiate rent increases, ensure that landlords do their end of the contract, and will help you with legal proceedings should it be required.
There are also various “customer owned” institutions, like my bank, insurance company, and the grocery store I get most of my groceries from. The goal isn’t necessarily massive profits, but enough to sustain and develop the services, with surplus going back to the owners, that is the customers.
It just makes sense. We all make use of schools as children, so funding that with taxes makes sense. It ensures everyone gets a good education, and at least one good meal per day. Same thing applies to healthcare.
My mother WORKS IN HEALTHCARE as the intermediary for the hospital network and the insurance companies.
She literally sees the Financials of people every fucking day.
And still she thinks socialized Healthcare would tank the entire US. I’ve shown charts, studies, anecdotal evidence out the wazoo (which is where anecdotal evidence usually comes from) But no, I can’t possibly be right about this, it would mean someone who got stabbed will have to wait on 600 people with the sniffles to be seen by a doctor in 6 months. Because I guess in socialized medicine, triage doesn’t exist? You can’t logic someone out of a position they didn’t logic themselves into.
“Dues deducted from paycheck” and “typically must go through union instead of your supervisor or manager” are true. At the same time, they’re minor inconveniences compared to what a bad employer does to you.
The “effective due” is probably even negative because the extra money they’ll fight for will be more than the due.
I sharpened the QR code. It reads:
Very surprised they didn’t put ?campaign=qr
, /qr
or other such crap in it to measure its effectiveness as opposed to the printed URL.
(Saved you a click: domain is on sale, not used after 2022. Archive)
Someone should hijack the QR code by strategically filling in back squares with a sharpie and have it point to a pro union URL
That’s just barely possible:
- Be ready to register a domain that’s off by 1 character. Generate a list of such domains from
http://www.0npackjfk8.com/
tohttp://www.unpackjfkz.com
. - Use an advanced, preferrably command-line QR generator that not only allows changing the size (version) or error correction mode but also the mask pattern. Match these parameters to the original code.
- Verify that the generator and settings work correctly by regenerating the original code.
- Check that when you change a character, only 1 byte in the content part (right of the QR code) and the error correction changes.
- Generate QR codes with varying domain names. Increase error correction as much as possible as long as it doesn’t change the layout of where each character is.
- Using ImageMagick, overlay each newly generated QR code with the original using the
min
/max
function (depending if the colors are inverted). - Put each result into a QR scanner. Only a handful of the circa 380 codes will scan, about half of which to the original and the other half to the edited URL. Of the latter half, manually check which is the easiest to scan.
- If none work well enough, repeat the process but with 2 changed characters per domain.
Why go through the trouble instead of printing a sticker?