3 Responses to “Basic rights”

• #1

  Mike Haubrich

  December 3, 2022 at 8:53 am

  Employers were baffled about why people weren’t going back to work after the pandemic shutdowns were in the past, and learned the wrong lesson about it. They thought it was because they were getting paid too much from unemployment and had gotten lazy.

  Turns out it had to do with people just not wanting to be treated like shit and having to grovel for pay, and especially sick pay. I would think that as an employer, they would want to give their people time to recover so that they don’t spread illness due to not being able to afford to stay home.
• #2

  iknklast

  December 3, 2022 at 11:38 am

  I currently enjoy a union job but we are in danger of losing our union because too many people are dropping out. In addition to the recent turf wars that rocked our local, there is also the phenomenon, totally expected in a right to work state, where a lot of people realize the union contract applies to them, too, even if they never pay union dues.

  One contract we got in recent years was wonderful; it gave us a good raise, and some other things that should have been in our contract all along but weren’t. The bosses responded by saying they wouldn’t work with the union if our chief negotiator was the same one that got that for us (they didn’t use those words). The union accepted that, and said if she was chief negotiator, they would not provide support for our negotiations.

  When the unions are gone, perhaps people will understand what they’ve lost.
• #3

  Rev David Brindley

  December 3, 2022 at 3:05 pm

  Remember, Casey Jones was a scab.