Educated workers know that they will have a more fair and safer workplace if it's union.
Educated employers know that they will have a more profitable workplace if it's union.
The only issue is getting both to understand unions help everyone.
When I was a shop steward, I found that MOST of my coworkers didn't understand the history of our union.
Our union had been formed after employers got royally P.O.ed at strikes shutting them down.
Long story short, owners and workers agreed on a 100% union work place, with employer reps sitting on the union board and union reps sitting on the employer board, and pay determined by productivity. If productivity increased, employees got half. If productivity decreased, employees gave up half. All employees were represented so no employee was allowed to call a strike without the union.
At the time I worked there, the last strike was SIXTY YEARS AGO, thanks to the union.
I quit the union when the majority voted to make sure 40 hour employees made more than part time. Until then, pay was based on service hours, after so many hours working, you got the pay. Teachers and other dependable adults could work evenings for full pay after about 5 years. Department heads like me could work less during summer's slower sales season, and enjoy camping and fishing more, then work 60 hour weeks during busy season.
When the employees voted, against the advice of union management, to make full time pay peak at 20% higher than anyone else, the result was obvious. The employers never hired another full time employee from that moment on. Now, I go into stores and it's 100% part time employees. Service is quite a bit worse when NOBODY has 5 years, much less 35.
Unions are always popular with educated people.
Educated workers know that they will have a more fair and safer workplace if it's union.
Educated employers know that they will have a more profitable workplace if it's union.
The only issue is getting both to understand unions help everyone.
When I was a shop steward, I found that MOST of my coworkers didn't understand the history of our union.
Our union had been formed after employers got royally P.O.ed at strikes shutting them down.
Long story short, owners and workers agreed on a 100% union work place, with employer reps sitting on the union board and union reps sitting on the employer board, and pay determined by productivity. If productivity increased, employees got half. If productivity decreased, employees gave up half. All employees were represented so no employee was allowed to call a strike without the union.
At the time I worked there, the last strike was SIXTY YEARS AGO, thanks to the union.
I quit the union when the majority voted to make sure 40 hour employees made more than part time. Until then, pay was based on service hours, after so many hours working, you got the pay. Teachers and other dependable adults could work evenings for full pay after about 5 years. Department heads like me could work less during summer's slower sales season, and enjoy camping and fishing more, then work 60 hour weeks during busy season.
When the employees voted, against the advice of union management, to make full time pay peak at 20% higher than anyone else, the result was obvious. The employers never hired another full time employee from that moment on. Now, I go into stores and it's 100% part time employees. Service is quite a bit worse when NOBODY has 5 years, much less 35.