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> If management are "fair and reasonable", what do they care if there's a union on premises? Everyone just goes about their business. Do you realize that you h
by streblo 8y ago
> If management are "fair and reasonable", what do they care if there's a union on premises? Everyone just goes about their business.
Do you realize that you have to pay monthly dues to a union? If I were paying union dues and the union didn't serve a purpose (due to fair and reasonable management practices), then I wouldn't want to pay those dues anymore. Everyone just going about their business still involves me paying union dues.
- goldcd 8y agoBut the point of paying these dues to have a point. For example, strike-pay. If your employees are living pay-cheque to pay-cheque, then your risk of them all striking as a whole is minimal, whatever you do. If you know they could all subsist for say 6-months (housing and food covered by strike-pay), then you would be more cautious in your actions. My take is that there are stupid extremes on both sides of the unionization debate. But, as a concept, it provides a nice stabilizing counter-balance. If employees are happy, you don't notice the union. If they're unhappy, then you'll hear from the union. If the company is fundamentally unviable then really unionization is moot as you're all going down together.
- munk-a 8y agoPlease differentiate between "dissolving" and "scaling back" if the union is mostly just idle I'd be disappointed if it didn't lower the membership dues. There could be discussions about building up a bank for rainy days, but if the union isn't doing anything but has a steep monthly payroll for administration that's a legitimate criticism... so cut down those dues until it's needed at full force again.