No one deserves a union. Unions aren’t a good thing.
Comment on SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game Companies
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cool. I hope it gets other areas of the game industry to unionize. They deserve it.
madthumbs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you like weekends? Thank unions. Do you like sick pay? Thank unions. Do you like overtime pay? Thank unions.
Unions make your job better even if you’re not in one by fighting for your rights as much as theirs. They want your pay to be as good as their pay.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Our union calendars love mentioning that shit, but it’s like me bragging about a second grade vocabulary test. Our union leadership recommended we accept a contract that 80% of the members voted against. I’m not going to get into pension and 401k fuckery, but we can’t just dogmatically say unions are great and cite 100 year old wins. Unions need to work for their dues.
InternetUser2012@midwest.social 1 year ago
You can’t blame the union for piss poor union leadership.
madthumbs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you like dead beat workers bringing down your earning potential? - Thank unions! DO you like having your employer not able to provide suitable work for you when injured? -Thank unions! Do you like someone forcing you to fork over a portion of your taxable income? - Thank unions! Do you like people abusing ‘sick time’? - Thank unions!
scv@discuss.online 1 year ago
It’s kind of funny how you are wrong in every way.
- Union workers earn 20% more.
- You shouldn’t work while injured. Worker’s comp is a thing.
- You pay a dime to get a dollar.
- It’s not abuse to take sick time, but you already stated people should work injured.
Thank unions.
art@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A lot of “Temporary Embarrassed Billionaire” vibes.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, blame your co-workers for everything. It must be their faults. They’re all “deadbeats” and “abusers.”
Also, your job is supposed to provide for you when you’re injured.
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I know that’s what the work training video tells you, but that is what the businesses want you to think.
madthumbs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m 52 years old. I learned from experience having been in multiple unions. Keep going with assumptions and propaganda. -Don’t forget to ‘collectively’ down-vote what you can’t reason against.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Reading this comment as I enjoy the Labour Day holiday in my country is really funny.
treefrog@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You mean corporate shilling. Corporate shilling isn’t a good thing.
madthumbs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not being pro-union doesn’t mean pro corporate. dumb dumb
treefrog@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’d love to hear the mental gymnastics behind this comment.
GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Rule of the internet: If you want to know the true answer to a question, confidently post the wrong answer and inevitably someone who knows will reply to correct you.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re not entirely wrong. If there is a union, it exists because something bad has happened. People don’t just sit around and go “you know we should organize to protect ourselves from companies”. Companies thoroughly fvck people over then they organize to protect themselves.
Unions are the lesser of two evils between unionization and getting fvcked by companies.
You shouldn’t have to pay a mediating company to exist to make sure you get fair wages vacation and work, but it certainly didn’t come out of nowhere.
GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Visual Effects checking in.
Although I hope it doesn’t go the way the rest of the entertainment industry has, where the company colludes with the union leadership and negotiates essentially a freelance gig style of work, where you are just a day-hire and can be dropped off the schedule at a moment’s notice, and have no healthcare coverage or retirement.