Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

is it time to unionize?

I work in a non-core location that has over 500 Wells Fargo employees. The teams I work with are located all over the United States in core and non-core locations. Over my 10+ years, I received outstanding reviews, bonuses, and promotions.

With this latest announcement I feel completely powerless over my future with Wells Fargo.
I imagine most of you feel the same way. It doesn't matter what the rules are when you are hired, it doesn't matter how good a job you do, it doesn't matter if the location is relevant to your work.

Executive management will take whatever action they want that they think will improve the share price.

And that is what they're being paid to do.

How can we as individual contributors try to restore some semblance of the balance of power?

A union seems like the only way.

When workers were distributed, leadership could always close down any location that started to form a union.

However, now that they have locked themselves into a relatively small number of locations, they can't really close one down!

I know there are efforts out there to form a union at Wells Fargo, and I think it's time we seriously look at getting behind them.

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Post ID: @OP+1riGyVWS

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Too late. They will either offshore you, automate your function or contract your position out.

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Post ID: @1tvk+1riGyVWS

Because Shart doesn't want it, that really is the best answer. FHY.

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Post ID: @1iva+1riGyVWS

@ttn

Because the collective voice of unionized employees is exponentially more powerful than you telling your manager your opinion in a 1:1.

How do you not know this?

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Post ID: @ngo+1riGyVWS

Never. Why would you PAY someone else to speak for you?

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Post ID: @ttn+1riGyVWS

Looks like we've got a few corporate cucks in this thread.

Just a reminder to you, your overlords don't respect you. At all. You're a tool for getting work done so they can walk away with more money than you'll ever make, while they pat you on the head.

I know, I know. You think your big break is right around the corner, and if you keep cucking for your overlords, they'll accept you into the fold as one of your own any day now.

Sorry, but the above paragraph will never happen to you. "I made it in life" jobs are far too scarce to give it to spreadsheet warriors. Instead, they will give them to family friends from Chase, etc.

Now then. Now that we've established that regular workers have zero chance at making it big, let's stop pretending that life is entirely what we make of it. It's not. There's too much corruption in the process.

Stop shilling for people that would jump off a building if they had your life. Start getting behind efforts that actually benefit you. You'll feel better, I promise.

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Post ID: @xyj+1riGyVWS

What I don't get is how they can off shore so many jobs when it's US assets that Wells Fargo manages.

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Post ID: @jhz+1riGyVWS

Ask people from the rust belt how unions worked out.

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Post ID: @egm+1riGyVWS

Difficult question. On the one hand, large scale unionization would reinforce the executives tendency to outsource/contract everyone possible. On the other hand, Shart doesn't want to be known as the guy that's so horrible he made a big bank unionize. F it, in it for spite and severance at this point.

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Post ID: @ykp+1riGyVWS

Trying to create a union during layoffs is like trying to fix a leaky roof when it's raining...too late to try and fix the current situation.... creating a union will benefit those that come after the current situation in years to come......

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Post ID: @rhq+1riGyVWS

Nobody owes you a job or a path to career advancement. Stop working your butt off for the company if it won't get you anywhere. If you don't like what the company is doing, then find one that is run how you expect it to be.

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Post ID: @lnv+1riGyVWS

short answer - yes - you should be in a union. my family was in a union until they retiree. dont believe the corporate hype - life is way better and more stable

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Post ID: @dct+1riGyVWS

It's been time to unionize for a long time, including non-managerial exempt roles.

Things are only going to keep getting worse until the bank is compelled to do better.

Will a union create a utopia? No, but it would still be a be an improvement.

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Post ID: @ela+1riGyVWS

I agree, however, I don’t see a union making a difference for the Barnhart Center in Oregon. The building (and our jobs) is due to close either by December 2024 or December 2025 depending in which rumor you follow.

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