• madthumbs@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    I’m 53 years old. I’ve had an equal amount of union and non union jobs. Union jobs SUCK for good workers. How to pay workers less than minimum wage? - unions! How to keep a drug addicts job so they can endanger their co-workers? -Unions.

    There’s nothing stopping unions from allowing your boss to pay you minimum while they take ‘dues’ from you. Nothing is stopping unions from being as corrupt as employers.

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      20 days ago

      Union jobs SUCK for good workers.

      The data betrays your conclusion.

      https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w27720/w27720.pdf

      There’s nothing stopping unions from allowing your boss to pay you minimum while they take ‘dues’ from you.

      Unions aren’t mandatory. There is no taking. Given such a fundamental lack of understanding on that front really makes me doubt your story.

      Nothing is stopping unions from being as corrupt as employers.

      Yes there is, there’s the union elections and the consent required for participation.

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        20 days ago

        Statistics are used by propagandists.

        Yes there is, there’s the union elections and the consent required for participation.

        Union reps are almost always the worst employees. Good employees don’t tend to want to bother with union crap.