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Once a union matures into its own thing, independent of the original idealistic/altruistic founding group of employees, giving things to members that the union
by efsavage 4y ago
Once a union matures into its own thing, independent of the original idealistic/altruistic founding group of employees, giving things to members that the union didn't "win" for them becomes a big problem in their eyes.
- mulderc 4y agoI am in SEIU (and also AFT and IWW, but that is a whole other deal) and this is not my experience at all. The union doesn't have any issues with management providing benefits that were not a part of the contract negotiations, hell it happened all the time during the pandemic and the union was fully on board. SEIU is about as mature as a union gets and in my experience, across three rather established unions, the Union is the people that run it, which is my case has been my fellow employees.
- efsavage 4y agoThat's good to hear. My experience with trade unions has been the opposite. They have full-time people who run it, many of whom haven't plied the trade in many years (and often only a token amount, if at all), and if they feel left out of any aspect of company<->worker transactions they become very prickly.