Whoever voted in favor of unionizing in New Mexico, thank you, thank you, thank you for leading the way. You have given us hope. We need yo improve the working conditions at our branches because being understaffed and taking the heat from rightfully unsatisfied customers is hard. No breaks or lunches, hard work, mediocre raises... Submitting escalated complaints doesn't do anything, HR works for the corporation. Executives don't care about the little man. I'm tired. I'm tired about how this business is run, and I'm not going away until I we have an union vote at my branch.
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Should be pushing to unionize India locations. Make offshore more costly and less efficient. mic drop
Your employer's values will NEVER match your own, because they cannot. The employer's value is to minimize costs and maximize prices in order to make as much money as possible. There is no such thing as a company trying to do anything other that reduce wages as low as possible.
Unions are a blunt tool for sure - like trying to maintain a finely tuned car with just a $300 set of Harbor Freight hand tools. However if the alternative to unions is the status quo: mass, unequally distributed layoffs, pay increases that at the worst were only a quarter of the rate of inflation, and intentionally inhuman policies designed to cause so much mental anguish that employees break down and quit, then unions are required.
CS has simply broken the social conventions that are supposed to exist even in the extremely unequal relationship between employees and executives. He's an openly hateful person and if the blunt instrument of unions are the only way to put him in his place, then that's what is now required.
"simpler to start off with an employer who's values match yours"
This is exactly what will happen when the job market improves and employees have more options.
The pro union trolls are out in full force on this board. Watch out for your wallets!
I will honestly never understand why people would put the time and energy into trying to "fix" a place they work when it would be simpler to start off with an employer who's values match yours.
Union away and good luck, but this is like trying to flip a flop house in Detroit.
dislike unions
dislike WF 1000x more
OP, I'm rooting for you and all the understaffed and overworked frontline folks!