Organized labor could be Trump’s kryptonite
  • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Or 3, people with a bad experience with unions.

    Here’s my anecdote.

    My dad and uncle worked for the same company, each for 30-40 years. My dad was regular salary, my uncle was union, and both had similar engineering degrees making similar money (lived about a mile from each other with similar lifestyles). Every few years, my uncle would be out of work because his union would strike, and money would dry up in the process when the paychecks would stop. He ended up losing his job when the company shipped he jobs elsewhere because dealing with the union got old.

    Unions can be great, just make sure yours is one of those. A bad union can make things worse.

      • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        It’s not really a horror story, just two similar roles reaching the same end, just one had a lot more stress due to the union. It was probably more impactful for the blue collars in the union, but both my dad and uncle were white collar, so it was more a disruption than actually helpful.

        Sometimes a union is absolutely essential, and sometimes it needs to justify itself and ends up screwing you over. If you get a union, make sure it’s a good one that won’t strike unless there’s a good reason to (and no, increasing dues isn’t a good reason).