Majority of workers at Mercedes plant in Alabama sign UAW authorization cards
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Re: Majority of workers at Mercedes plant in Alabama sign UAW authorization cards
#2Previous: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/foreign/202... ("Alabama Mercedes-Benz plant hits 30% UAW authorization support")
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The main thing I want from the UAW is a refund for all the money they took from me when I was a grad student. In the US, the UAW is the union for graduate student employees at several universities.
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How is it a trap? Seems pretty obvious for a worker to why this makes sense.
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Because unionized workers consistently have higher pay, better benefits and more rights.
Next time you see the headline about some company laying off thousands of people while simultaneously making record profits and paying their CEO some number of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, ask yourself why that never seems to happen to unionized workers.
Next time you see the headline about the "working poor" that have multiple jobs and still can't make ends meet, ask yourself why that never seems to happen to unionized workers.
Next time you see the headline about people going years without so much of a cost of living increase to their wages, ask yourself why that never seems to happen to unionized workers.
(I could go on)
Re: Majority of workers at Mercedes plant in Alabama sign UAW authorization cards
#7Good for them. Got to keep unions alive for that collective bargaining. Given the recent state court rulings in AL, I am honestly surprised Mercedes is even keeping the plant open.
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Because unionized workers consistently have higher pay, better benefits and more rights. Next time you see the headline about some company laying off thousands of people while simultaneously making record profits and paying their CEO some number of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, ask yourself why that never seems to happen to unionized workers. Next time you see the headline about the "working poor" that ha…
Worked great for Detroit!
Like rent control, unions often protect existing workers at the expense of everyone else.
And that protection can extend into retaining bad workers, punishing highly productive workers.
Not that all unions are a net negative but many are.
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Because unionized workers consistently have higher pay, better benefits and more rights. Next time you see the headline about some company laying off thousands of people while simultaneously making record profits and paying their CEO some number of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, ask yourself why that never seems to happen to unionized workers. Next time you see the headline about the "working poor" that ha…
No problem, the manufacturing will move to Mexico.
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Because unionized workers consistently have higher pay, better benefits and more rights. Next time you see the headline about some company laying off thousands of people while simultaneously making record profits and paying their CEO some number of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, ask yourself why that never seems to happen to unionized workers. Next time you see the headline about the "working poor" that ha…
Adding a union might net workers who join it higher pay in the short term, but who's to say that they aren't missing out on significant wage increases in the long term? You'll never see that counterfactual, and as a union gains momentum, it becomes increasingly unlikely we'll ever know how the workers might have performed without the union.