To be fair, I was in a union for 10 years. When it came to job reviews and redundancy every 6 months for my final couple of years, the union didn’t seem to do anything to help us, either representing us or standing up to the company. So 10 years subs for fuck all.
We are being asked to take quite large cuts to our pay on the chin while CEOs, bankers, landlords, corporations, and pensioners are all seeing their tax burdens fall, their income grow, and their restrictions on pay and bonuses relaxed.
This country’s economy no longer works for workers. There is open class war here, which side are you on?
Union-backing group concludes unions are “likely” beneficial based on their analysis which they aren’t sharing.
Well I’m convinced….
After I left a union and collective bargaining in a previous job my average pay rise over 10 years outstripped those still in CB. Some years the CB group did better.
A problem with collective bargaining is that it’s geared towards the average, so if you perform above average, you are dragged down by the rest.
we are better at complaining about the incontinence from that last strike…
I’m unionised and make 10.50 an hour. It ain’t much, but literally every job except mine in my area is either minimum wage or an executive job I can’t get. It feels strange that 10.50 an hour is the most money I’ve ever made.
I found the union I was in awful. I paid in and when I needed there help they shrugged there shoulders so I left.
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To be fair, I was in a union for 10 years. When it came to job reviews and redundancy every 6 months for my final couple of years, the union didn’t seem to do anything to help us, either representing us or standing up to the company. So 10 years subs for fuck all.
[In the last 12 months](https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/uk-workers-put-ps27-billion-worth-unpaid-overtime-during-last-year-tuc-analysis) UK workers put in over £27 billion in *unpaid* overtime.
We are being asked to take quite large cuts to our pay on the chin while CEOs, bankers, landlords, corporations, and pensioners are all seeing their tax burdens fall, their income grow, and their restrictions on pay and bonuses relaxed.
This country’s economy no longer works for workers. There is open class war here, which side are you on?
Union-backing group concludes unions are “likely” beneficial based on their analysis which they aren’t sharing.
Well I’m convinced….
After I left a union and collective bargaining in a previous job my average pay rise over 10 years outstripped those still in CB. Some years the CB group did better.
A problem with collective bargaining is that it’s geared towards the average, so if you perform above average, you are dragged down by the rest.
we are better at complaining about the incontinence from that last strike…
I’m unionised and make 10.50 an hour. It ain’t much, but literally every job except mine in my area is either minimum wage or an executive job I can’t get. It feels strange that 10.50 an hour is the most money I’ve ever made.
I found the union I was in awful. I paid in and when I needed there help they shrugged there shoulders so I left.