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> 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 ag
by 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.