What is with the collectivist mindset of so many black people? Cultural? Education? Something else?
Posted on 03/18/2024 1:10:58 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Workers at a Volkswagen manufacturing plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board, the UAW announced Tuesday.
The move could make the Tennessee plant the first to join the UAW since the union earned pay raises and benefit increases for its members in a strike against the “Big Three” automakers last year.
“I come from a UAW family, so I’ve seen how having our union enables us to make life better on the job and off,” plant employee Yolanda Peoples said in a statement. “We are a positive force in the plant. When we win our union, we’ll be able to bargain for a safer workplace, so people can stay on the job and the company can benefit from our experience. When my father retired as a UAW member, he had something to fall back on. VW workers deserve the same.”
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I guess they are tired of having a job...................
I never understood the motivation for a union. Under work rules, whatever your classification, you are paid the same wage as everyone else in that class with the same background. If you out-produce your average co-worker by 50%, there’s no payback to you. The only exception is when you’re paid by piece rate. To me, if you are a less than average worker, you should be pro-union so you can ride the work done by your more productive co-workers. If you’re more productive...why? Harder work than the average goes unrewarded. The only way forward is seniority. How sad...
They’ll regret it.
Farfegnugen
That union mindset will be their undoing, sooner or later.
“When my father retired as a UAW member, he had something to fall back on. VW workers deserve the same.”
That’s what 401ks and IRAs are for.
More entitlement mentality from someone I suspect can’t survive in a competitive workforce......I’m sure she’s angling to be site union rep so all she has to do all day is walk around.
“If you out-produce your average co-worker by 50%, there’s no payback to you.”
Which absolutely breeds low productivity and mediocrity......how could it not?
Socialism by any other name.
When my father retired as a UAW member, he had something to fall back on.
Would new UAW members get the same kind of pension plan her dad got? I’m inclined to think not.
Well, the world can always use more bartenders and ditch diggers
Unions are for more employees and less productivity
Worked for a Union once (not the company mind you). Was warned during evaluation to “take it easy “
VWs made in Mexico will be cheaper, but Yolanda still won’t be able to afford one without a job...
More at the above. 3rd generation UAW is Ms. Peoples.
Note to the would be rank and file: You can’t say you weren’t warned.
What is with the collectivist mindset of so many black people? Cultural? Education? Something else?
Again. They’ve tried this before, it got voted down, the UAW claimed it was fraud, and yet here we are again.
Any time now the “Well you know VW in Germany has a union!” people will show up.
Never worked within a union. As dealership shop employees, we talked about unions but never could come to an agreement as shop employees. Maybe was better that way; I’m not sure. It looked like there were advantages & disadvantages either way.
> I never understood the motivation for a union. <
Sometimes it’s not a money thing, but a job security thing. With no union (or other contract), employees are employed “at will”, which means you can be fired for any reason. Or for no reason at all. Maybe the boss’s nephew wants your job. Or maybe the boss just doesn’t like the way you look. So out you go.
A union will at least give you some protection in that regard.
That doesn’t mean a union is always a good thing, because it’s not. As others here have mentioned, union demands have helped to kill entire industries.
I’m just pointing out another reason why some folks decide to unionize. It’s not always about the money.
I dealt with union nurses.
They might have treated patients well. But, they treated everyone else like shit. If it wasn’t in their contract, they didn’t do it.
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