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Every group can organize. There's no magical barrier. Dunno about the US but unions for management does exist in other countries.

by tokai 5y ago

syshum 5y ago
This is one of the ongoing problems with discussion about "unions" "Unions" in the US are very very very very very different legally than "unions" in EU and other nations, personally i think they are so different we need a different term for them... The closest we have to a EU style union would be something like SAG, or the other entertainment unions, which often referr to themselves as Guilds. The employment unions like being formed at amazon are different animals all together which have ALOT of downside for even the workers in them.
- happymellon 5y ago
  > which have ALOT of downside for even the workers in them. Do you have examples? As someone in the UK I don't see anything different between the Amazon workers Union and the unions here except for age and experience. They all just want to not be treated like dirt.
  - syshum 5y ago
    The big difference (and please correct me if I get UK info wrong, I am not an expert in UK Labor, I am versed in US Labor) that in the UK you have sector unions, not enterprise unions. A company may have employee's working under several unions, and I believe there are even competiting Sector unions that an employee can choose to join finding the union that best suites them In the US, typically, the is a 1:1 union, enterprise relationship. If you want to work at company X, you must join Union Y with no options to join a competing union, no options to opt out, and no regress if you do not feel the union is representing your interests. referred to as "closed shops" there is large amounts of corruption, favoritism, and other negative quality to many US Unions.
    - Avshalom 5y ago
      closed shops have been illegal since Taft-Hartley in 1947.
      - syshum 5y ago
        That is a technically in terms only. So apologies for using "closed" [1] instead of "union"[1] shop which are functionally the same thing, and Union Shops still very much exist which is clear from my description of what I was talking about in my comment, (i.e I clearly stated employees were required to join the union post hire) Right to Work states are a counter to Union Shops, which there is active efforts to do away with Right to Work laws [1]Closed Shop A company that only employs union members and requires them to secure and maintain union membership as a condition of employment. [2]Union Shop A company that doesn’t require employees to join a union in order to be hired, but they must join within 30 days of employment.
        happymellon 5y ago
        This makes sense, terminology can make a huge difference when trying to research and understand a subject.
    - ryoshu 5y ago
      You haven't been forced to join a union in the US - or pay dues if you don't join - since 2018 when the SCOTUS ruled against the practice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_v._AFSCME https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_v._AFSCME). You could potentially start a competing union for, say, pipefitting, but the NLRB needs to approve it (federal agency). But now you are fighting management and a national union that already absorbed local ones over the last 150 years. Unions tend to consolidate over time because it gives more negotiating power for the members.
      - syshum 5y ago
        That is a misinterpretation of that ruling, which applies to non-union members being forced to pay dues Union Shops, where by in Non-Right to work States the union negotiates with the Employer (private not public) that all employees of the group will be represented by the employer the employer can still be required to force employees to join the union with in 30 days, normally this is an automatic process for "union shops" Again this varies by state, and Right to work states can not have such a provision, however Janus decision DID NOT outlaw union shops. Also none of your comment seems to refute or attempt to explain the differences between UK or other EU unions and US unions, which is the context we are discussion, gotcha technicalities do not go to this over all conversation which is the vast differences between how unions operate in the US vs other nations.

Every group can organize. There's no magical barrier. Dunno about the US but unions for management does exist in other countries.

by tokai 5y ago

Every group can organize. There's no magical barrier. Dunno about the US but unions for management does exist in other countries.

syshum 5y ago

This is one of the ongoing problems with discussion about "unions" "Unions" in the US are very very very very very different legally than "unions" in EU and other nations, personally i think they are so different we need a different term for them... The closest we have to a EU style union would be something like SAG, or the other entertainment unions, which often referr to themselves as Guilds. The employment unions like being formed at amazon are different animals all together which have ALOT of downside for even the workers in them.

happymellon 5y ago
> which have ALOT of downside for even the workers in them. Do you have examples? As someone in the UK I don't see anything different between the Amazon workers Union and the unions here except for age and experience. They all just want to not be treated like dirt.
- syshum 5y ago
  The big difference (and please correct me if I get UK info wrong, I am not an expert in UK Labor, I am versed in US Labor) that in the UK you have sector unions, not enterprise unions. A company may have employee's working under several unions, and I believe there are even competiting Sector unions that an employee can choose to join finding the union that best suites them In the US, typically, the is a 1:1 union, enterprise relationship. If you want to work at company X, you must join Union Y with no options to join a competing union, no options to opt out, and no regress if you do not feel the union is representing your interests. referred to as "closed shops" there is large amounts of corruption, favoritism, and other negative quality to many US Unions.
  - Avshalom 5y ago
    closed shops have been illegal since Taft-Hartley in 1947.
    - syshum 5y ago
      That is a technically in terms only. So apologies for using "closed" [1] instead of "union"[1] shop which are functionally the same thing, and Union Shops still very much exist which is clear from my description of what I was talking about in my comment, (i.e I clearly stated employees were required to join the union post hire) Right to Work states are a counter to Union Shops, which there is active efforts to do away with Right to Work laws [1]Closed Shop A company that only employs union members and requires them to secure and maintain union membership as a condition of employment. [2]Union Shop A company that doesn’t require employees to join a union in order to be hired, but they must join within 30 days of employment.
      - happymellon 5y ago
        This makes sense, terminology can make a huge difference when trying to research and understand a subject.
  - ryoshu 5y ago
    You haven't been forced to join a union in the US - or pay dues if you don't join - since 2018 when the SCOTUS ruled against the practice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_v._AFSCME https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_v._AFSCME). You could potentially start a competing union for, say, pipefitting, but the NLRB needs to approve it (federal agency). But now you are fighting management and a national union that already absorbed local ones over the last 150 years. Unions tend to consolidate over time because it gives more negotiating power for the members.
    - syshum 5y ago
      That is a misinterpretation of that ruling, which applies to non-union members being forced to pay dues Union Shops, where by in Non-Right to work States the union negotiates with the Employer (private not public) that all employees of the group will be represented by the employer the employer can still be required to force employees to join the union with in 30 days, normally this is an automatic process for "union shops" Again this varies by state, and Right to work states can not have such a provision, however Janus decision DID NOT outlaw union shops. Also none of your comment seems to refute or attempt to explain the differences between UK or other EU unions and US unions, which is the context we are discussion, gotcha technicalities do not go to this over all conversation which is the vast differences between how unions operate in the US vs other nations.