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This is probably demonstrating my ignorance, but what does it mean to 'fail to unionize'? Does it mean that they were trying to create a new union but not enoug
by anitil 6y ago
This is probably demonstrating my ignorance, but what does it mean to 'fail to unionize'? Does it mean that they were trying to create a new union but not enough people joined?
Typically in Australia people join unions related to their award (broadly correlating with industry) rather than a specific employer, so it's not something I'm familiar with.
- MattGaiser 6y ago> The move comes less than one month after all Medium employees—including the editorial unit—attempted to unionize and lost by one vote. The employees voted against having a union.
- anitil 6y agoOk so this is a union specific to Medium. What I'm not understanding is can't you have a union anyway? Why does it need to be a majority/some threshold?
- saagarjha 6y agoA union that is lacking in majority has little bargaining power?
- sofixa 6y agoEven 30% of your employees have significant bargaining power - losing them all at once could be devastating to any entity.
- epc 6y agoIn the US, a union must represent a majority of the workers identified as potential members of the collective bargaining unit in order to gain that negotiating status under Federal and State laws. Once recognized through a vote or collection of cards representing a majority, the union can negotiate a contract and labor agreement representing all employees (I’m fuzzy on whether recent judicial decisions have weakened this to just formal union members).
- traveler01 6y agoProbably because unions are rather useless in most parts. They take a cut from your salary to do basically nothing at all. You don't need an union to make yourself heard, just gather your colleagues and protest.