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It is soo good. A tech company i just got offer from. In their onboarding app, they let me join the union on the first day.

This is what you see in the company with strong union.

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[-] wyrmroot@programming.dev 110 points 3 months ago

And a screenshot with a nearly full battery? They clearly hired well.

[-] arche7ype@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 3 months ago

No, you're not supposed to go beyond 80%. Fire that fool immediately. /s

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Fuck apple and it's "AI powered" battery charge protector for my laptop that says it'll stop it at 80% (or 85%?) based on your usage habits, but always charges it to full because fuck your battery. I'd bet money they don't give you the option to permanently set it and not be AI driven because they know the battery dies sooner because their AI battery manager sucks.

I may be triggered.

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

No, they give you the option to cap the charge percentage at 80% but you’ll need to buy iPhone 15 to get it 🙃

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Jesus, my Moto G from 2022 has that feature... Apple is a bunch of aasholes.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm specifically talking about macbooks.

My laptop is of course at 100% despite what this says, plugged into my wall outlet, like usual.

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[-] Chewget@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Some phones will allow you to select battery protection - 100% at 80%, 0% at 20%

[-] harcesz@szmer.info 66 points 3 months ago

This is most often an effect of collective bargaining between unions and the company, not their gesture of goodwill. Teleperformance, a massive global shared service was recently forced to do that by Uni Global Union.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago

So weird that a union is such a weird taboo and looked down upon by employers in the US.

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[-] StarlightDust 35 points 3 months ago

If the employer if promoting a union, its probably somewhat in their pocket. Its just an extension of HR. I used to use the printer in the same room as my workplace HR and the union rep would constantly be insulting employees behind their backs to them.

[-] Strawberry 30 points 3 months ago

could also be in their contract with the union that they must promote it

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

When my job unionized (it was through an amalgamation), my union immediately fired a grievance against the managers that got amalgamated who did some shady shit, and I got a 2500 dollar payout, and they got told to quit/retire or be fired, so they did. Everyone needs a union.

[-] StrangeQuark@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Canada just had legislation go into aff3ect every 5 hours needs a 30 min break. A pro worker move!

But my shift is 10 hours and the company pettily tacked on the extra half hour unpaid. They get no extra work from me, just forced to sit at the end.

Unions fighting it, speaking even to the Labour Minister. I like unions.

[-] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago

So you're working at E-corp and they want to sign you up for the F-society?

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[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

I got a job once that required me to join the union. It was bagging groceries part time for minimum wage at a grocery store. Sorry I don't mean to be a downer, I see union membership as a good thing. Unions are like democracy. They are only as good as the people they are made of.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah, my brothers first job in a grocery store, sane thing. He was required to join a union and the dues taken out of his pay, despite being part time minimum wage for the summer . All the union benefits were for full timers, so it was basically stealing money from people who could least afford it.

I’m generally pro- union but for sure there are some taking advantage

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

What good is the union if they can't even get you more than minimum wage? Wow.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah I didn't work there very long. It was 1984 and unemployment was 10%. Being fresh out of high school I took whatever I could find

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[-] Damage@feddit.it 18 points 3 months ago

The F*** family

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 14 points 3 months ago

They made it easy for you, they didn't let you.

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago

They let him use the app to do so. This is needlessly pedantic

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 7 points 3 months ago

I disagree that it was needless due to how many people don't understand that they have a right to join or form a union. The fact that it can be read as either providing an opportunity or as the company granting permission seemed like the perfect opportunity to reinforce the importance of seeing unions as a right.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago

Not disagreeing with you, unionization is a right and needs to be treated as such, including in the language we use around it. But don't some unions not allow you to join immediately? Like you have to work there 30 days or something first? That's how I read this

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago

That smells like a trap. Like I know my ability to trust anything but white oak and black iron has burned down and leaked out my right ear as a fine white dust but I would avoid that button then go to the union rep in person.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 13 points 3 months ago

No joke, I see this becoming more common. They’re even doing it the way I imagined: straight up integrated with onboarding.

Maybe it’s an outspoken prediction, that in the future many more businesses will prefer a unionized workforce, but I think a number of current societal and market vectors would suggest that trend. In particular, consider the variety of HR-related logistics, liabilities, and relational concerns of a modern business that amount to operational overhead. You can likely imagine ways that unions might simplify, stabilize, or fully externalize that friction, such that the increased productivity outweighs higher labor expenses, similar to the way efficiency wages in labor economics can ultimately reduce turnover related expenses. That’s just one way unions could become an attractive solution to employers and employees alike.

At any rate, it’s what I would prefer if I needed to hire W2s, to the extent that I’d be willing to help spin up local chapters if necessary, and it only takes a handful of successful examples to accelerate labor trends.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 15 points 3 months ago

Unions have long made businesses run better. They don't fight unionization efforts because of profit. They do it because of control.

[-] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Unions help to fight inflation and price gouging as well. Unions are good for the entirety of any economy in which they exist. There are decades upon decades of independent and government funded research that supports this.

https://theconversation.com/unions-do-hurt-profits-but-not-productivity-and-they-remain-a-bulwark-against-a-widening-wealth-gap-107139

https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/labor-unions-and-the-us-economy

https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-and-well-being/

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[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

Seriously in Europe many investment funds activly go to the unions and ask which problems the company have. They are often better informed and honest then the normal management. They also have an obvious intresst in keeping the company around.

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[-] gcheliotis@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Huh, hadn’t seen that before. But does that necessarily mean it is a strong union? Couldn’t it also mean it’s an employer-controlled union that is not really going to do anything for you?

[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 18 points 3 months ago

It's more likely there not because the employer wanted it, but because the union demanded it.

[-] Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

Employer controlled union. That's oxymoron.

[-] gcheliotis@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

No not really, if you read more about unions you will see that they aren’t always working in their members’ best interests and sometimes union leadership will ally with employers to secure their futures above those of union members. Not all unions are created equal. From what little I know and have read in the past about unions. Not that I have first hand experience.

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[-] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

You've got a point. This can be a sign of something sinister. It's not necessarily a bad a sign but the situation that the previous user pointed out happens frequently enough that it could be.

[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I'm coming at this from the bottom. But it's incredibly sus to me.

I'd contact the union direct and speak to them about this before I signed.

[-] GhostTheToast@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

If I may ask, what company?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 3 months ago

Is this not the norm? The only two jobs I ever had that had unions, did the same thing. Though, they also had the union rep come and explain shit before you filled out any paperwork.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Love unions! Everyone in my family was union, or currently is.

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