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A union won't help you get your own tailored work situation, where you enjoy never ever being contacted after hours. They'll work for a situation where everyon
by beachy 5y ago
A union won't help you get your own tailored work situation, where you enjoy never ever being contacted after hours.
They'll work for a situation where everyone gets that, and everyone is treated the same. That's the whole point.
Goodbye work flexibility for your entire company.
- relaxing 5y agoNo, it’ll help everyone get their work situation where they enjoy never being contacted after hours. Or if your position requires after hours work, it’ll ensure you are fairly compensated. Goodbye ability for upper management to demand unpaid overtime or fire people for violating unspoken “agreements.” (Obviously being union doesn’t force everyone into the same position description.)
- lovecg 5y agoWell yeah that’s the idea. Things like “never being contacted after hours” only work if everyone agrees to it. If there are a few people on the team who “defect” by getting work flexibility and start pinging people at night, the whole culture quickly reverts to “it’s ok to ping people at night”. You’ll be free to choose non-union jobs, it’s just there will now be an option for a “business hours only” workplace where there’s none now.