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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
Our Goals
- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
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The statement is true. You have to create your own job.
After unionizing I have noticed that there aren't really many jobs worth applying to. Most jobs advertised are worse than what I already have.
It's not just about the pay. To me it's more about the company "growing up" and acknowledging the need to balance the relationship between management and the qualified personnel, instead of viewing employees as unskilled servants.
The reason I couldn't find a job like that before is pretty clear. We also don't post job openings on the web anymore. First of all we don't have a lot of people quitting, but we also have plenty of qualified union members to choose from when we do have vacancies.
The way I see it, unionization is primarily an upgrade for the company. It's not just access to qualified personnel. It also cuts out a lot of the bullshit conflicts between management and employees, because there are general agreements on a lot more things.
If they want employees to take the company serious, they need to treat their employees seriously.
Throwing pizza parties and threatening low paid unskilled workers with arbitrary management decisions or making random bonuses and shit doesn't achieve anything like this. It's a complete waste of time in comparison to having a proper clear union agreement.
Unionisation as a company upgrade is exactly how we in Australia achieved a huge productivity boom in the 90s without wages growing too fast or stagnating. Howard fucked that up in the 2000s in the name of business and both wages and productivity growth stalled.