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I don't know exactly how it works in USA, but generally if the union decides to go on strike, you don't have much choice as an individual member.
by pathy 13y ago
I don't know exactly how it works in USA, but generally if the union decides to go on strike, you don't have much choice as an individual member.
- josh2600 13y agoYou have the choice to vote. The union voted to strike. Not everyone voted for it, but enough did to initiate the strike. It's usually a fairly unanimous thing. Source: once upon a time, long, long ago, I was on the executive board of a union that may or may not have voted to strike.
- spikels 13y agoThe percentage of members of the two BART unions that voted for the strike is also public. It was not close. SEIU 98.5% ATU 99.9% http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-workers-vote-to-authorize-a-strike-4623305.php http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-workers-vote-to-a...
- derleth 13y ago> The percentage of members of the two BART unions that voted for the strike is also public. It was not close. Those numbers (upwards of 90%) look like the numbers won by dictators in rigged elections. Who monitors the union voting process?
- casiotone 13y agoUnion ballots are well regulated and usually even put incredibly unfair restrictions on the unions. They achieve this result in a very simple way: Their members want it.
- derleth 13y ago> Union ballots are well regulated Says who? The unions? What outside observers monitor the ballots?
- flyinRyan 13y agoSounds like they have legit grievances then.
- icelancer 13y agoBut if the vote to strike is going to pass easily, then surely you don't want to be an outcast and vote against it, right? Retaliatory actions from your fellow union members has to be common.