netherstray:

mierac:

rowantheexplorer:

gorgonsach:

justgfy:

gorgonsach:

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Unions are trash. Theyll Destroy a whole company for firing a shitty worker.

unions are the reason you aren’t paid 2.50 an hour with steel beams about to bust ya head open shut up lol

Unions are why you have 5 day, 40 hour full-time work weeks. Unions are why they have to pay you in actual dollars instead of “company credits” that you can only spend at the company-owned stores. Unions are why there are fucking fire exits at your place of work. Unions are why it’s not okay for your supermarket ground beef to be any percentage human.

You think your company pays you out of the goodness of their hearts? Or even out of “market pressure?” The “job market” is a myth perpetuated by the capitalists. Corporations would pay you nothing if they could get away with it. And you argue “oh, but if they paid me nothing I’d just go to another one.” Wrong. Because to maximize profits, they all want to pay you nothing. Corporations exist to maximize profits while reducing risk for investors. It’s part of their entire function to find ways to cut costs as much as possible, and that includes finding ways to pay you nothing.

Unions are your defense against that. You think all a union does is strike? If you pay union dues, a lot of that is spent on lobbyists in various governments reminding your lawmakers that you have rights as a living human being that a corporation should not be able to stomp all over. Unions hire lawyers so that if you’re fired for bullshit reasons, the union can stand up for you against your boss. They’re called unions because workers are uniting to pool resources so that they can stand up to these corporate overlords with more money than God. Unions exist because you might not have the words, resources, or time to fight workplace injustices all by yourself. That’s the whole fucking point.

And if a business shuts down because a union is striking, it’s because the business was abusing people and didn’t deserve to be in business anyway. Don’t make excuses for the corporations. They already have trillions of dollars and a couple million lawyers to do that for themselves. They don’t need your help.

The erasure of labor history from US history curriculum has caused so much fucking damage to this country. 

Remember when workers went on strike because working conditions were actually fucking deadly and in response the company would bring in armed thugs and the fucking national guard to shut them up

Unions remember that shit.

Any time a company treats you well it’s because they do NOT want workers to even THINK about the need for a union. Companies like having rules and contracts that they can just rewrite whenever the fuck they please. They don’t want workers to unionize because that takes this power away from the company.

So quit quoting your stupid parents and actually learn how fucking great unions are. Don’t let shitty unions—like police unions—sour you to the whole idea. The only think that truly keeps companies from turning into the absolute fucking nightmares they want to be is the constant threat of their workers having the right to say “NO” and walk out.

if a company would be destroyed by a union then it deserves to be destroyed. any company that is actually good to its employees have nothing to fear from unions

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