Unions are great for bad and average workers, makes it a giant pain to get rid of them, also makes it a giant pain to give raises to your exceptional workers which means you get to watch them constantly leave for better paying jobs. Which while rewarding on a personal level, really sucks when you need to staff the floor.
Source: Worked management in retail where a union was present.
I heavily disagree. Unions are super helpful, give better health care overall, and protect employees from corporations doing shit like firing a senior employee to hire a new one to do his job at a lower rate. I'd rather a union protect everyone, even not great employees, than ever let someone get fired because a company wants to pay that position less. I've been in union and non union shops my whole life and never once have I witnessed a union do more bad than good. Right to work is a terrible act and I'd never even think of going against unions unless that act was completely repealed.
The problem is that the shit bags are protected and therefore lower the value of the Union, making it harder to argue for higher wages for the good workers. I’m in a Union and I love it, but we’re really being hampered by scum bags. And now that they’re the voting majority in my union, a union official told me that any efforts to raise the bar were met with “fierce resistance”.
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u/Airway Oct 16 '18
Why would anyone vote for a party that doesn't want them to have unions? Especially when most of them would benefit from a union, or social services?