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Unions; Is it worth joining them? and do they really matter?
Topic Started: 31 Dec 2010, 00:02 (23 Views)
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Definition: Workers Organisations set up to unify people behind some common cause, typically for the bargaining or organising of relatively better ways of living according to/ along lines set out by precedent, culture and membership

Question: Is it worth joining them? do they really matter? and are they really sustainable?

I'd welcome all members comments and deliberations; we will hold a poll after a few weeks.
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Unions serve a purpose, even in today's environment - perhaps especially in today's environment.

Employers, with the high unemployment rate, are cutting older worlers, anyone who makes 'too much' money, people with benefits - they feel the government should take care fo their workers - but not tax the employer to pay for them that way, either.

This sort of action can occur at both the corporate and personal levels, and unions, and a few knowledgable people in the workplace about the rules (anything from EEO to OSHA) can REALLY make a difference.


THAT SAID, a Union can gather too much power to itself. When it starts existing for the sake of gaining more power, getting more for the worker becasue it CAN, and not becasue the worker is beign treated unfairly, there's a problem. I've seen this, in my family and my job, from almost every position on the pendulum. The union has never had the power of, say, the autoworkers, but it's gotten close at least once in my career. And it's been powerless, or nearly so, once in my career, and once not long before my career.

I don't think the war of employers and unions is over. Are they a good idea? In GENERAL, yes. I can envision specific cases where I would reccomend against one.
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