Workers involved in union activities say Tesla is illegally intimidating them
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#2Unions annoy me. Working conditions 75 years ago were truly deadly, and unions served a major purpose to humanize the work force.
Nowadays we have "tax the robots" bills being sponsored by Unions and people somehow think it's "ok" to force someone to join a union to feed their family.
When I see articles like this, I know what the right answer is but it's hard to empathetic at the same time.
Re: Workers involved in union activities say Tesla is illegally intimidating them
#3Unions annoy me. Working conditions 75 years ago were truly deadly, and unions served a major purpose to humanize the work force. Nowadays we have "tax the robots" bills being sponsored by Unions and people somehow think it's "ok" to force someone to join a union to feed their family. When I see articles like this, I know what the right answer is but it's hard to empathetic at the same time.
couldn't you say the same thing about full time employment vs. being a contractor or part timer? why can't people organize themselves if they want to?
Re: Workers involved in union activities say Tesla is illegally intimidating them
#4Unions annoy me. Working conditions 75 years ago were truly deadly, and unions served a major purpose to humanize the work force. Nowadays we have "tax the robots" bills being sponsored by Unions and people somehow think it's "ok" to force someone to join a union to feed their family. When I see articles like this, I know what the right answer is but it's hard to empathetic at the same time.
couldn't you say the same thing about full time employment vs. being a contractor or part timer? why can't people organize themselves if they want to?
I think people have a definitive right to organize! It disappoints me what they use it for sometimes
Re: Workers involved in union activities say Tesla is illegally intimidating them
#5Unions annoy me. Working conditions 75 years ago were truly deadly, and unions served a major purpose to humanize the work force. Nowadays we have "tax the robots" bills being sponsored by Unions and people somehow think it's "ok" to force someone to join a union to feed their family. When I see articles like this, I know what the right answer is but it's hard to empathetic at the same time.
couldn't you say the same thing about full time employment vs. being a contractor or part timer? why can't people organize themselves if they want to?
> why can't people organize themselves if they want to?
That's fine, don't force people to organize and pay "dues".
Re: Workers involved in union activities say Tesla is illegally intimidating them
#6Unions annoy me. Working conditions 75 years ago were truly deadly, and unions served a major purpose to humanize the work force. Nowadays we have "tax the robots" bills being sponsored by Unions and people somehow think it's "ok" to force someone to join a union to feed their family. When I see articles like this, I know what the right answer is but it's hard to empathetic at the same time.
I'm pretty ambivalent about this. In some sectors you hear the story "he got paid $40 an hour to change light bulbs" but in other sectors (teachers?) workers are still chronically underpaid and mistreated.
In short: you can't make black and white generalizations about these things. In some cases a union still makes sense, in others they've become dead weight or obsolete.
Re: Workers involved in union activities say Tesla is illegally intimidating them
#7Unions annoy me. Working conditions 75 years ago were truly deadly, and unions served a major purpose to humanize the work force. Nowadays we have "tax the robots" bills being sponsored by Unions and people somehow think it's "ok" to force someone to join a union to feed their family. When I see articles like this, I know what the right answer is but it's hard to empathetic at the same time.
> Unions annoy me. Working conditions 75 years ago were truly deadly, and unions served a major purpose to humanize the work force.
Just because a company isn't literally trying to kill you or introduce hazardous conditions for the sake of maximizing profits doesn't mean that unions aren't useful. In a lot of cases, their very presence is inhibitory to regressions in the rights of employees.
Do unions have problems? Yes, absolutely, and we shouldn't neglect those either. At the same time, scrapping them would be a very bad idea.
Re: Workers involved in union activities say Tesla is illegally intimidating them
#8Unions annoy me. Working conditions 75 years ago were truly deadly, and unions served a major purpose to humanize the work force. Nowadays we have "tax the robots" bills being sponsored by Unions and people somehow think it's "ok" to force someone to join a union to feed their family. When I see articles like this, I know what the right answer is but it's hard to empathetic at the same time.
> Unions annoy me. Working conditions 75 years ago were truly deadly, and unions served a major purpose to humanize the work force. Just because a company isn't literally trying to kill you or introduce hazardous conditions for the sake of maximizing profits doesn't mean that unions aren't useful. In a lot of cases, their very presence is inhibitory to regressions in the rights of employees. Do unions have problems?…
do morons ask themselves questions so they can attempt a stale point in reverse? you're all idiots.
Re: Workers involved in union activities say Tesla is illegally intimidating them
#9> Tesla CEO Elon Musk ... promised to install both a roller coaster and free frozen yogurt machines throughout the facility.
I had to double-check that I was not reading a satirical website after reading the above statement.
Re: Workers involved in union activities say Tesla is illegally intimidating them
#10Unions annoy me. Working conditions 75 years ago were truly deadly, and unions served a major purpose to humanize the work force. Nowadays we have "tax the robots" bills being sponsored by Unions and people somehow think it's "ok" to force someone to join a union to feed their family. When I see articles like this, I know what the right answer is but it's hard to empathetic at the same time.
> Unions annoy me. Working conditions 75 years ago were truly deadly, and unions served a major purpose to humanize the work force. Just because a company isn't literally trying to kill you or introduce hazardous conditions for the sake of maximizing profits doesn't mean that unions aren't useful. In a lot of cases, their very presence is inhibitory to regressions in the rights of employees. Do unions have problems?…
> Do unions have problems? Yes, absolutely, and we shouldn't neglect those either. At the same time, scrapping them would be a very bad idea.
Existing unions are not taking much in the way of steps to address those problems or clean up their image in the eyes of the public. Until unions can once again demonstrate openly and conclusively that their primary concern is the welfare of the worker rather than just being another power player jockeying to get their share of the pie, scrapping them would be a very good idea.