LOL..... .. I havent came to this site in about 3 or 4 weeks and I see this. LOL...
Its not todays work enviroment that makes unionizing a difficult or a bad decision, IMO. Its the polotical enviroment. When choosing to unionize or not, you should not be put in a situation where youre choosing on whether you want your job or not. Unfortunately, the penalties for illegal firings and things of that nature have very little bite. Companies are willing to pay the penalty. Unionizing in this country is just about impossible. Which probably why US workers rank so low when it comes pro-worker issues. Other countrys in Euroupe are FAR more pro-worker. It is being designed to be this way to discourage workers from attempting to do it.
The cure to all this was supposed to be the Employee Free Choice Act. Its due to come up soon for vote. It will probably pass, but because of recent decisions made by the NLRB it will be useless. The NLRB has just made a decision that will allow employers to tag some sort of supervisory duty to non-supervisor position. They have now ruled that if you have any spervisory or managerial type duties in your job tittle, you are not eligible to join a union. For years corps have been playing with this by doing things like calling some technicians engineers or some other tittle with just enough mangerial duties to keep them from being union eligible. Companies now have the abilty to arrange job tittles so that none of their employees are union eligible. Theres one hospital that was attempting to label there entire staff of RN's as supervisors. With this new decision they now can do it and the RN's union will be no more. Corps will now probably give their blessings to the employee free choice act. They will bless it for PR reasons, but now, no matter how good labor laws become they now have the laws set up where they cant be used by the workers who may need them.
IMO, the future is very dim for the workers of the next generation.
Re: A union, is it time
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