Comment on amazon anti union posters put up by the company

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What union doesn’t elect their union leadership?

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  • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well some stewards are prone to bribing, special treatment by MGMT to turn a blind eye to certain things or back off. Others are competent, but maybe too busy for you. Others are elected because they’re popular or whatever, but as a steward they’re not knowledgeable or brave or effective. There’s lots of ways a union steward can go awry.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s lots of ways a union steward can go awry.

      And lots of ways that a union steward can go right?

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      • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It tends to be an overall, net positive.

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• Mandy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  but like, in a country that isnt run by companys as hard as usa, the latter is the default. nothing more nothing less. Are unions so busted in america even they cant help but filled with corruption?

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  • jscummy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It depends on the industry and honestly I’d be surprised if some unions in your country are not similar or worse. I’m in Chicago, which is one of the country’s biggest union strongholds, and construction unions here are often shitty and corrupt. Unions will bully and fight dirty against competing companies, sometimes even getting in spats between local chapters

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    • Mandy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      if such a thing is present in my countries unions is so minuscule that its inconsequential, but if fairly confident (no country is perfect but you get my point) my countries isnt even close to whatever hellhole usa unions are

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      • jscummy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Might be a difference in the role the union has fallen into. The unions I’m talking about have been given way too much power through cronyism over the years, and at this point act more like a trade association/cartel acting for the businesses against other businesses, not for the workers against management

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