Protip: if they mention unions in any way during your interview, you need to be in a union.
They Ask about unions in Job interviews? What the fuck
USA! USA! USA!
Yeah, why not straight up ask, if you'd like to work for them under shitty conditions with abysmal pay?
People act like jobs don't ask illegal questions but in different ways with zero retaliation. The smaller the company, the less they gaf
Is this an American thing? Why would anyone be anti union (apart from the given example of getting a job)? Even the decimated unions of the UK are still thought to be fairly positive seeking for better rights. Genuinely asking.
Ironically I know a lot of German employees who range from sceptical to outright anti-union. They are mostly East-Germans, and my attempt of an explanation is that for them, unions used to belong to the founding and ruling East German Socialist Party SED and thus they connect it with oppression and patronisation from the elite ruling class. They don't have any arguments either, when you ask them what they have against it and whether they know that we have weekends and maximum working hours and paid sick leave due to unions they go yea of course of course, but... idk man... I don't see how I would profit from it... and all the strikes man, it only hurts the economy man... It's a bit like yeah but apart from sanitisation, wine, the aqueducts, schools, democracy, what have the Romans done for us?!
And then of course some are thoroughly brainwashed an-caps who think people must be stinking rich or stinking of the excrements in the street they live in, no in-between, and hate unions for fighting just that.
I doubt it's a uniquely American thing, but yeah, there's a lot of anti-union sentiment in America for good but mostly bad reasons.
Some modern unions have overstepped their reach (IMO) at the expense of the people their members are supposed to serve.
Mostly, it's propoganda. Or whatever you call the process that makes people accept tax cuts on billion dollar companies (already at the lowest rate America has ever seen) or a predatory healthcare system.
Police unions need to go, pretty much all other unions are good though many could use some reform. There is a guy at my work who is rarely on time, calls out sick constantly, has verbally threatened co-workers and supervisors and totalled a $100,000 truck and the union keeps going to bat for him and there seems to be one of those guys at every union shop I've been a member of. I am pro union but I just wish they would do better at picking their battles and ditched toxic motherfuckers who make the rest of us miserable.
Care to venture a split on the good/bad? UK is the same to an extent with gov. decrying strikes in the last year but most professionals at least are still in a union.
A company will get the union it deserves.
I wanna live in a world where this is always true
(Great quote though, I might steal it)
if they confront you just say you thought they talked about the European Union, they can't prove you didn't
"So are you pro-union?"
"Not since Kruschev was removed."
"What?"
"What?"
I thought you guys broke up?
If you are an employee and not a member of a union you are only hurting yourself.
Until this very moment I always assumed the job had to be affiliated with a union for me to even join... I had been a refrigeration tech for some time and never in the union when apparently I could have been?
Now I'm just a shitty factory worker so I doubt there's a union for what I'm doing, but to know I could have had union backing and I didn't go for it is frustrating. :/
See also, signing a contract which includes opting out of EU Working Time regulations, then emailing HR to opt back in the day your probation is up. They can't deny your request or punish you for it.
Not even a question when companies have to follow the salary gride defined by the union. IG-Metall, be blessed !
This is the way.
Well. I am good of not telling the truth.
Unionize!
