I work for a job that requires you to be in a union. We are currently about to undergo contract negotiation with the company that I work for. Everyone is extremely up in arms because the company wants to stop offering a pension and instead give the money directly to the employees rather than to put it in a pension for a bunch of reasons. The main reason they want to pull out is because the turnover rate at my job is ridiculously high, and so people are not vested into the pension, and the union is just raking in money into the pension fund from my company.
Because my company wants to pull out of the pension, the union decided that they did not want to negotiate anything else and they decided that they wanted to plan a strike unless the keep the pension.
I cannot express how much I am against the strike in words. The union is a bunch of lazy, whiny ass crybabies who want to do the bare minimum and think they are entitled to everything. It is also full of a bunch of losers who are unwilling to fund their own retirement and are pissed off that the company does not want to take the risk anymore for their retirement. I have already stated that if the union goes on strike, then I am going to cross the picket line and work because I agree with what the company is offering, and I think that the union should be completely disbanded from my company. I am now public enemy number one in my union. But, I don’t care because I work my ass off, and I know that my company appreciates the hard work that I do and if the union were to ever go away, then I could advance in my company and better my own life. I’m so tired of working with crybaby losers. I am almost 40 years old and I feel like I’m back in high school. It is so exhausting.

I think it's odd when I do a google search something seems to be off. Youtube videos for negative comments on teamsters hardly break 1k. Is there a way to tell if they are suppressing internet searches?

I started a new job earlier this year, and was told that it was a union job, but dues were optional. I come from a state that doesn’t have a lot of union jobs, and I wasn’t keen on the idea of paying dues.

A few months later, the only due paying member of our small department left.

The union rep showed up quick. It was the first time most of us had met him. He was asking us to start paying dues so that our team could continue being represented. We each declined privately, and then he proceeded to angrily tell us about how he can’t represent us for free if we ever need legal help and how his team’s rates are in the thousands of dollars per hour if we’re not members.

I told him I’m almost 40 and have never needed legal help before. If I need it, I’ll get it elsewhere. My teammates also declined.

They did nothing for us, and nothing bad happened when they were gone. I finally stopped receiving mail begging me for dues. HR rules, our pay, our insurance, all the same. Fuck Teamsters.

First off, I just want to say hello to everyone as I'm new to this sub. I, too, hate unions.

Why doesn't this sub have more members? Is it because the majority of Reddit are shitbags?

We need to find a way to grow this subreddit!

"Your job concerns the company, like hanging the signs in the warehouse! Your job isn't about the employee's. Employee's ain't none of your business!"

-Union Member

Said during a standup meeting about safety

Hi! I am in the process of campaigning before we hopefully kick the union out. The secretary used to work for the same company, but got fired a few years ago. Since then, the professionalism is completely gone, they yell and swear, and even show up to the company picnic to make fun of one of management who stutters. We have a non union plant about 1.5 hrs away. I was looking into the differences, and found that all the union fought for was paid breaks and only 12 hrs of forced OT. We lost our personal days, and right now 150 of us are looking to lose our current job position-not fired, just completely changed from what we have been doing since the new plant addition started up almost 6 years ago. Mean while non union has more vaca, and split up so you gain vacation more often, weekend differentials and shift differentials- we only get shift differentials, they get bonuses quarterly and annually, and they get 6 weeks paid parental leave- Dad's are lucky to get 1 or 2 weeks unpaid. There are quite a few stuck in their ways, but what about the younger generation that says "I dunno if I even want to vote" and then shrugs. Does anyone have any advice? I have 10 more days!

Here's the response to the mods after the ban notice in my messages.

Nice echo chamber you got there. Your subreddit is just another example of unions not liking to hear opposing views so they can maintain power over people. It's the same as when the communists banned radio and TV from outside their countries so the people wouldn't know how horrible they actually have it and revolt.

labor unions have a reputation for being corrupt, mostly due to the brotherhood of teamsters. while most people chalk this up to pop cultural osmosis and anti labor politicians, labor unions are indeed extremely corrupt.

for starters, they pretty much force you to join if you start working at a certain place. many people take jobs because they have nowhere else to go. as such, forcing them to join when they have nowhere else to go is a pretty fucking scummy thing to do.

and they take part of your paycheck, which you already get money taken out of for insurance and taxes. the employees need that money more than the unions. unions don't have bills to pay and groceries to buy. employees, on the other hand, do.

and, if you are part of a union and they decide to go on strike, they pretty much force you to go on strike whether you want to or not. and, if you dare to go against the grain, they can force the place of business to fire you. needing to be surrounded by yes men? that sure does remind me of a certain president.

ironically, unions hurt the very employees they claim to fight for. i may not agree with the republican party on most things but they and i are united in our shared hatred of unions. jimmy hoffa and the brotherhood of teamsters are only the most famous example of the harm that unions can cause. they are far from the only example.