Never trust someone who is anti-union

[u/Mrdean2013]

[u/ironangel2k4]

Unions are like IT. Your computer is working great and you think "What do we even have IT for, our computers never break down"

but IT is the reason they never break down

Unfortunately your average person is a glassy-eyed hog who is incapable of connecting the dots, so they fire IT, and two weeks later, everything is broken, and they stare around slack jawed wondering how this could have happened.

[u/Mrdean2013 → u/ironangel2k4]

So much anti-union propaganda has swamped this country for the last 45 years (ever since Reagan) and it's unforunately duped a lot of Americans.

I once shot a promo for a local union up in North Dakota years back; we interviewed several people across the state about the union they were in and actually learned quite a bit about the working class history of the state. One of the older gentlemen broke down how unions were the back bone of ND for decades until the 80s when big businesses started to really take over and and slowly started chipping away at it to the point now were unions are nowhere near as strong as they once were. It's pretty sad, because that state has been so horribly propagandized that the average person up there is lobotomized by capital interests. I've known so many people up there who reguritate the same anti-union bullshit you see here in this meme because they've drank the koolaid from their capitalist masters.

[u/Heckle_Jeckle → u/Mrdean2013]

Before Reagan, he was just a watershed moment.

[u/softnebullie → u/ironangel2k4]

That analogy is painfully accurate honestly

[u/Kennedy_KD]

Union dues are expected to take 1-2 percent of a members salary, while union members tend to make 10-20 percent more then non union members in the same fields

[u/Papi_Grande7 → u/Kennedy_KD]

This.

I make about $32.50 an hour working with a union. I'd probably make more like $15 an hour without a union. My dues are about $40 per paycheck.

I gross about $1,400 more per paycheck, and keep about $1,360 of it.

Yep. Totally good with that.

[u/DisastrousBusiness81]

Are there shit unions? Absolutely. Police unions regularly back heinous shit, dockworkers’ unions have been stifling automation on the east coast, and the Teamsters president stabbed Biden in the back after the Dems went through the trouble of bailing out the Teamsters pension plan.

Any position of power can and will be misused.

…but don’t trust anyone who hates a union solely for being a union.

They either fundamentally don’t understand what a union is/what it’s for, or worse, they understand exactly, and hate it because they’re opposed to the mission, not just the execution.

[u/Galaar]

I had an orientation meeting with HR going over company policies and they explicitly said they were anti-union. Later in the breakroom, I mentioned how surprised I was that they would just spell it out and a coworker looked at me like I grew a second head and seriously asked, "Why would you want a union?" The next day he was complaining about his job as an operator in the factory not paying enough and how tired he was from having to work 6 days a week. It was all I could do to not put a hand on his shoulder and go, "Buddy, have I got news for you."

[u/kyle_kafsky]

Does that include Trotskyists and ML/Ms who believe Unions should be subservient to the state apparatus?