1) Nope, still hate unions. See, Amazon is a case where there are labor laws and caselaw on the books that specifically tell them they CANT do shit like this, but they do anyways because there's no enforcement of the laws that already exist. Fuck it, second thread.
2) So, as a counterpoint, I worked at a grocery store where there was a mandatory union. Yep, compulsive union membership, and all you got were the basics required by state law and a wage that ultimately was not competitive. Night shift again, so that made up for it.
3) This union put seniority above competency and strictly managed career growth. The central office for the union was in California, which created the situation where nationwide basically ALL of the upper management for stores, all union employees keep in mind, were women.
4) This isn't a problem until you realize that if you were a man you effectively could not EVER be promoted into the upper management program. The only men that were upper managers snuck in before the unofficial gender discrimination policies were put into place.
5) This was over a decade ago, keep in mind, the SJW idiocy hadn't QUITE broken into the mainstream yet. It was still behind closed doors. ANYWAYS, the union would put in all kinds of policies requiring people to work different departments for promotion and other such benefits
6) So, for night shift stock crew which required you pulling HEAVY pallets of goods behind you to the appropriate aisles, a 70 year old grandma from the cashiers desk would transfer in, taking up a valuable employee slot, stealing hours away from people who could DO the work
7) But she was untouchable as she worked under the union for 20 years and had seniority on EVERYONE.
8) Oh, and union management? Well, for the state office, it was a bunch of fat older bastards, they had a cushy set up in their own office building and ate lunch at Hooters every day. No hyperbole. Fat old bastards eating lunch at Hooters every day.
9) And they were all being paid fat salaries drawn from every other employee's salaries to... give us the state minimum for breaks, enforce idiotic policies, and otherwise never interact with the employees under their care at all.
1) Segway to the teachers union my mom was in. THOSE fuckers basically stated that unless you got tenure, they would NEVER go out of their way to help you out, hard not to notice that you wouldn't NEED them after tenure >.>
11) What teachers unions HAVE done is lobby to completely fuck up and degrade the requirements for BEING a teacher to the point that a bachelors degree in a specific subject area is all that's required but it locks you into only being able to teach a single subject in high school
12) This has drastically increased the supply of teachers to the point that for decades now their wages have been depressed. This isn't the ONLY reason teachers are paid shit, but at this point, teachers are quite literally quoting a principle my mom worked for 'a dime a dozen'
13) So there's the legacy of teachers unions. Low-ass job security, and I mean LOW, as in, if you don't have tenure you'll be dropped after the school year to make room for newer cheaper teachers, and shit pay.
14) This isn't to say that there ISN'T the money to pay teachers better. Oh, there is. There oh so DEFINITELY is, in every state. How, you ask?
15) theatlantic.com/education/arch… Basically unchecked spending on consultants, educational programs that are basically 'idiots guide to teaching' costing $100 million or more, and random overpriced technology jammed into the classrooms teachers receive hardly any training on.
16) The groups pushing this? Democrats, teachers unions (sorry to repeat myself), etc. Spending on extraneous bullshit in order to create the appearance of improvement is a hallmark. In the linked article, 9 of the 10 most wasteful districts? California, New York, Massachusetts.
17) Shit like No Child Left Behind ACCELERATED this. Instead of accountability for unchecked spending going into everyone's pockets BUT the teachers, even MORE money was dumped into consultants and pointless technology and pre-built curriculums
18) Then teachers unions, instead of trying to create a highly skilled group of professionals who leveraged their specialized skillset into higher wages and benefits, fought to increase the raw number of teachers under their purview to gain political power.
19) When I say 'idiots guide to teaching', I mean it. Requirements for teachers went so absurdly low that you have a lot of 'teachers' who never learn to teach because they're forced by districts and their own unions to use those idiots guides which provide NO flexibility.
20) Fight against it? You're out, and replaced by someone from the goddamn Philippines. Yep, not joking about that one either. Dime a dozen? Try PENNY a dozen.
21) So fuck unions, and fuck you whoever the fuck I quote tweeted for asking 'well why's the GOP so against unions'? BECAUSE, dipshit, unions went from a group of highly skilled professionals banding together to increase the value of their skillset...
22) ... and into a corporate structure spreading into every conceivable industry possible no matter how pointless a union structure would be to drain money from the paychecks of people to support a political corrupted mechanism. The people who 'run' unions are the new aristocracy
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