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Ha on pulling the rhetorical trick of "when did you stop hitting your spouse?" There are many things employers do that employees dislike. Not all all of them a
by RhysU 6y ago
Ha on pulling the rhetorical trick of "when did you stop hitting your spouse?"
There are many things employers do that employees dislike. Not all all of them are abuse. A union will attempt to remove the dislikes, abusive or not. The removal of non-abusive dislikes will limit the employer's competitiveness. In the absence of genuine abuses, say after an effective union is instated and when all abuses have been removed, a non-union shop is therefore at a competitive advantage in the market place over a union shop. The union overhead becomes purely frictional and it never goes away.
- capableweb 6y agoSure, but the mere presence of a vote to start a union in a workplace is signs that something fucked up is happening, even though it might not affect everyone there. Or you think they are trying to create/join an union because they are just mad at Amazon?
- RhysU 6y agoI don't know their motivations. Unions have innate interests in having more union members.
- pmiller2 6y agoThere are a lot of steps that happen before a union vote. They don't just happen because a union decides they want more members. https://www.eballot.com/blog/the-union-organizing-process-explained https://www.eballot.com/blog/the-union-organizing-process-ex...
- pmiller2 6y agoIt's not a rhetorical trick. If a business is competitive only because it abuses employees, that business should not exist, at least in its current form. If businesses don't want the mean old union to come and make them stop doing stuff, they shouldn't invite conditions that lead people to vote for unions.