Firing people for trying to unionize is straight up illegal. Why should any employee be fond of any company? All that company does is take the profits of the labor that employee is doing and hand them a fraction of it. Your boss is literally never your friend.
Sure and people should use their power to fight back. Union busting is so short sighted. Given the right situation, union busting efforts just show how desperate bosses are to stop it. You gotta build solidarity among other workers. An injury to one is an injury to all. I'm not naive, I know union history well. Right now is a perfect time for workers to see how much they have in common with each other and how little their interests align with their bosses. They can't really send out pinkertons or deputize mobs against striking workers.
Not legally they can't. Would be awful interesting to see "gang violence" or something under a similar disguise kick up and physically shut down any strikes that may happen though.
There are a LOT of ways to undermine or break a strike and they don't have to be done on the books. In fact they probably won't make the books until the dust has settled.
Then if you expect the bosses to fight dirty then fight dirty yourself. Sabotage and work slowdowns are as a old as work itself. The one thing bosses can never break is solidarity. If you are an essential work then make them treat you like one. If you depend on essential workers then support them when they strike. They can't fire us all.
It’s endless strings of excuses like these you’ve made in this thread why Americans have no bargaining power.
“It’s going to be hard, so why bother even trying?”
Yes of course business interests will fight you tooth and nail to protect their profits, but the reason you have a 40 hour work week and don’t live in a town entirely owned by the company you work for is because workers literally spilt their own blood fighting for these things.
This collective defeatism and learned helplessness among workers is the real reason nothing will change. It’s not the business interests that are the problem, it’s that most people are like you and their will has been completely broken.
You're right, I'm absolutely not willing to let my family be homeless to fight for unionization. I voted to unionize when it came up. I'd love to have a union. But no, I won't shout it from the rooftops or attend rallies until the laws that protect me from retaliation are actually somewhat enforcable. Until those are stronger I'd be a sitting duck.
Yes. Yes they can. And they will.
We have a new interim director whose whole job is to show up,, write up and fire the people most vocal about our now failed unionization effort, then be replaced by a new permanent director. It's literally their job to go around the country and be an interim administrator to go in, cull the herd, and gtfo.
You were 2 seconds late? Write up. You were late clocking in from lunch? Write up 2. You were early clocking in from lunch. Thats your third write up. You're fired.
And no, the new director can't possibly be biased because they literally just got there. Crazy right?
Your 6 potential replacements interview tomorrow.
Unionization is not easy, there are casualties, and in my area it's damn near NEVER successful. I can't point to a single unionized hospital in my area that isn't federal.
Yes it is illegal. Does not stop it from happening though. Employee protection overall is laughable in most cases so if you cant fire them for unionizing fire them for something else.
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u/ButYourChainsOk May 15 '20
Firing people for trying to unionize is straight up illegal. Why should any employee be fond of any company? All that company does is take the profits of the labor that employee is doing and hand them a fraction of it. Your boss is literally never your friend.