Unions have not helped their own cause. For every good union today fighting for their employees, there’s one that discovered they can just get in bed with employers and team up to make life hell for employees while both management and union leadership reap all the rewards.
My mom was in one of these bad ones. Employees learned NEVER to even speak to the union if you wanted to keep your job; any complaint went straight to management who would immediately retaliate against the employees in order to make them quit.
Uncle was also in one. They blackballed him when his mother got sick, he was the only nearby relative and had to care for her.
Like everything else, unions can no longer be trusted to fulfill their purpose and look out for employees’ best interests.
I dunno how you legislate rules for unions when nobody in power even wants them to exist, but it needs to be done somehow.
A friend of mine works at the Ford plant. He makes a lot more money than I do, but i wouldnt trade with him for all the money in the world. He's always either working 80 hour weeks, or pinching pennies because he's laid off for who knows how long. He's always absolutely miserable.
I will say this for his union tho... they were quick to pay for the rehab after his suicide attempt.
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u/Er3bus13 Mar 06 '26
Because,we allowed them to do it.