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GHETTOBLASTER » 22 Jun 2022, 4:38 pm » wrote: ↑

22 Jun 2022, 4:38 pm

I was curious about this union..so I looked into any major grievances they have.
Well one grievance was that the workers at Hershey want to take a share of the record profits. There was no mention whether or not they would take a pay cut during hard times, though.
Then there was this...."One woman named Janice Taylor told the labor media outlet More Perfect Union that she was required to work for 72 days consecutively. She said, “I was exhausted both physically and mentally.” Taylor and others also detailed how Hershey has created a two-tier system at the factory where newer workers are paid less and have significantly fewer benefits."
Imagine that..a system where the workers who have less experience get paid less...what is this world coming to..?
Her state law should be pretty straight forward about the issue of working 72 days in a row...I wonder if she bothered to look at that..?

What she is referring to is actually a filthy practice of desperate, dying rust belt unions. They negotiate to allow the company to bring in temps - you know, for the Christmas season (or high summer, or whatever sesonal rush that industry has). And everyone knows that it's a fig leaf - that the contract allows temps to be a permanent fixture. The way the game is played, temp agencies send ready labor out each morning - year ****' 'round. The temps are youngsters - 90 day wonders. If the company keeps them 91 days, they're in the union and on steady. Otherwise, their employment is with the temp agency - NOT with the company. 

These temps shift companies every 90 days, always hoping and believing, with the innocence of youth, that their hard work and great attitude will pay off in stedy work at union wage. The union members keep their high pay on the backs of the temps. They COULD have agreed to slow their raise schedule, have a few less perks, what have you. Or they COULD have stood strong and demanded their pay grade for everyone, with graduations from a training wage. But they did neither. They sold someone ELSE'S job - and then came out of their ball washers about solidarity and brotherhood. Real scum.

House unions - got no good thing to say about them, other than they tend to keep wages up in the short run. Long run? They shutter businesses. And they veritably WALLOW in hypocrisy.