I'm on the fence with the unions. Have been in 3 in my working life and currently in one. Have had about as many non union jobs as have had union.
The place I see the unions as the most important are in safety in dangerous working environments. Companies are always looking for ways to pinch out every penny of profit and when they try to compromise safety for production speed or whatever it may be that is when the union is best served to the worker.
When you work at a operation that employees over 4k people, a organized union is pretty much the only logical way to negotiate pay. How long and how much human resource money it cost to negotiate the pay of 4k people one at a time.
The black eye on the unions is that just like every other gosh darn organization in this nation, the people on the bottom of the pyramid are common God folk all trying to work together toward improvement everyday. While the people at the top of the pyramid are money greedy and shady often going against what the people on the bottom believe is best.




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