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In reply to the discussion: Union workers who hate unions. I don't get it. [View all]RobinA
(9,863 posts)buy into anti-union BS even if they are in a union. Unions are no more perfect that any other group of people. They have agendas, they play favorites, they do dumb things. Sometimes they protect dolts and back stupid policies. They give raises to losers and great workers alike. I have worked private and public, union and nonunion. One nonunion place I worked for, management told us "Oh no, you don't want a union. With a union, we would have to give the same raise to the incompetent at the desk next to you as we do to a wonderful worker such as yourself." People bought it. No union. Guess what...every year, everybody got the same raise. Had kind of a dumb guy I worked with at another nonunion job. Was pretty incompetent, but he discovered that when problems resulted from his incompetence he could blame them on someone else and then make a big scene about solving the mess (with lots of help, of course, since he landed in this mess) and then be lauded for being a great mess-cleaner-upper. In reality he was a mess maker, but he got stars while us mess-avoiders got nothing. Wasn't fired from the nonunion job, would not have been fired from a union job.
I am currently in a public sector union. I have a pension that can't be taken away. I have decent health benefits. Some real incompetents work here, protected by the union. We all get the same raise. There are some stupid work rules. Guess which side outweighs the other?