Thread regarding Bank of America layoffs

WHY DON'T YOU UNIONIZE!!!

Instead of all the complaining and worry. Why not just unionize. Get bunch of you together and unionize. It s the only way to ensure you are taken care of. Think of all the local state and federal employees with pensions. That nly happens because of the unions. The company will tell you you are better off without being unionized. Thats only cause the comany is the only winner if you do not!

In a union, the employees at a workplace agree to band together (either on their own or with employees from other workplaces) to collectively negotiate for any number of things - higher wages and better working conditions, for instance. If enough people in the workplace agree to join in a union and the union is made official, the employer is required by law to negotiate a contract with the union, which represents all the workers, rather than with each worker individually, as the employer normally would.

Collectively, workers in a union have greater negotiating power than they do individually. If, for instance, a worker who isn't in a union demands higher wages or better treatment, she or he can often be ignored - the worst-case scenario for the employer is the employee will quit and someone else will have to be hired. If, however, the workers band together in a union and demand better treatment, the employer has to take notice - if all the workers agree to stop working (in an action called a "strike"), the employer has no way to run the business and is out of luck.

Finally, members of a union have to pay "dues" - fees that are used to run the union itself, pay pensions, pay union organizers and lawyers, lobby the government for favorable policy-making, and some use a portion of dues to a "strike fund" - money used to pay union members so they'll be able to support themselves during a strike. The amount of money paid as dues varies based on the decision of union members or leadership, depending on how democratically-run your union is. The goal of a union is for increased pay and better working conditions to more than outweigh the cost of membership.

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Because you couldn't be easily replaced, right? You'd just be pushing the offshoring and automation to be done faster. S--- it up buttercup, your becoming obsolete.

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CWA please come and organize!

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Done. I started it and I have self proclaimed to be the union leader.

Please send Union dues to my Goldman Marcus account

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