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Personal experience. All our local unions got sold out by union headquarters when it came time for contract negotiations. They did things like surprise votes o
by rdtwo 5y ago
Personal experience. All our local unions got sold out by union headquarters when it came time for contract negotiations. They did things like surprise votes over holiday weekend and negotiating contracts without involvement from local reps
- ashtonkem 5y agoHow many unions are we talking about here? One, a dozen, a hundred? Is it enough to draw a reasonable pattern from, or are we in “I had a bad experience with a union therefore all unions are bad” territory?
- rdtwo 5y agoTeachers union got sabotaged, machinist union got sabotaged, engineers union same deal. Different kinds of tricks but it seems pretty consistent story. Big Union hq negotiates a contract that’s not great for local members but skirts by at 51% vote under suspicion conditions. I’m not anti union. I mean union do provide slightly better pay conditions for members but they seem to be super corrupt as well. They are like a mafia, they provide services for members and Mafia members do slightly better but it no co-op.
- ashtonkem 5y agoSo two private sector unions and a public union. Not exactly a strong base to build a trend from.