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It's a huge organization and has definitely a lot of people employed as "career-unionists". Who do you think the membership fee goes? The membership fee is typi
by Geee 3y ago
It's a huge organization and has definitely a lot of people employed as "career-unionists". Who do you think the membership fee goes? The membership fee is typically 1.5% of employee salary. Just with a quick calculation 1.5% of 300,000 members x $50,000 average salary results into $225,000,000.
Despite what HN seems to think, these unions are bullies and completely unnecessary middle men.
- capableweb 3y agoThe fee goes to organise actions, like that people can strike but still get paid. How much experience do you have with Swedish unions specifically? And with Swedish industry in general? Judging by your comments, your experience seems to come from reading US news, is that close to the truth? For example, the percentage of your salary for membership is not a static one, it varies. And even so, it has a max amount (around 60USD last time I checked). Did you account for that when doing your calculations?