Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
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I’ve been a Teamster for 48 years. To date I’ve collected $656,000 from my pension 👍
aug 31, 2025, 12:14 am • 115 4 • view
That’s amazing! My mother is a fellow teamsters member too I grew up having all the book bags and pencils 😝
aug 31, 2025, 6:48 am • 2 0 • view
I've collected nothing. Previous employer didn't send my check in and Teamsters won't reissue on stale dated check.
aug 31, 2025, 8:10 am • 0 0 • view
🙀
aug 31, 2025, 10:38 am • 0 0 • view
I had a (spineless) bargaining unit for 35 years. But I do get monthly payments from both a pension and my Vanguard account. it helps that the house is paid off now too.
aug 31, 2025, 5:32 am • 1 0 • view
$265,910 so far from my pension.
aug 31, 2025, 2:30 am • 26 1 • view
I’ve been collecting mine for 16 years since 2009. I’m still working as a Teamster school bus driver for $40.43 an hour, plus social security 😉
aug 31, 2025, 4:20 am • 31 1 • view
My daughter’s grandpa was a 30+ year Teamster driving for Boeing. They took real good care of him, including that pension check.
aug 31, 2025, 3:13 am • 1 0 • view
Someone who knows labor laws to stand with you when you’re employer is trying to screw you out of something you deserve and they are legally obligated to give you.
aug 31, 2025, 12:07 am • 58 5 • view
Spot on. With a union you are never alone. Union strong.
aug 31, 2025, 5:28 am • 27 0 • view
Equal pay for equal work, pensions, seniority, severance packages…
aug 31, 2025, 1:14 am • 2 0 • view
Pension and better Medicare! Thank you, USW! Now, we need EVERY person in the US to have it!
aug 31, 2025, 12:13 am • 20 0 • view
Sir, You missed the 40 hr work week that happened at the same time as much of that pushed by #JoeHill and the #IWW. You doing a piece on Mr. Joe Hill would give some hope knowing a labour hero. Kinda needed right now, as it was then. As always, thank you. You are a g-damned national treasure, Sir.
aug 31, 2025, 12:59 am • 8 1 • view
…middle-class lifestyle, …single breadwinner, …community
aug 31, 2025, 7:04 am • 0 0 • view
Union representation, if you’re being oppressed.
aug 31, 2025, 1:13 am • 1 0 • view
All of the reasons that you said are the reasons why I appreciate unions.
aug 31, 2025, 9:08 am • 0 0 • view
Pensions!
aug 31, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
they drove many companies out of America
aug 31, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Had a short chat on this site with an anti union goober and she thinks the cost of cars will drop 10k if there were no auto unions. I’m still laughing. Unions give workers security and protection and when consumers are secure they spend more and add to the economy by buying homes, having kids etc
aug 31, 2025, 10:41 am • 2 0 • view
My organiser asked me the other day before a claims meetings why had there been an upsurge in people wanting to join our union all of a sudden. I couldn't speak for the production side of the business, but all it took was for our manager to resign to do it down our end.
aug 31, 2025, 2:07 am • 1 0 • view
Absolutely! Union Strong!
aug 31, 2025, 1:35 am • 1 0 • view
All hallmarks of a robust middle class.
aug 31, 2025, 11:40 am • 0 0 • view
Safety and protection in a workplace, five weeks paid vacation, paid sick and parental leave, fully funded healthcare including dental, mental, vision, $1 for prescriptions, our choice of scheduling work hours, decent pensions and 401k, you name it…
aug 31, 2025, 12:29 am • 16 0 • view
Key point: Instead of resenting union members for having these things, join us and we’ll fight to get them for everyone. It’s hard. The boss will threaten to fire people, and will fire people. But we’re not powerless. We’re stronger when we stand together.
aug 31, 2025, 2:40 am • 17 2 • view
“Injury to one is an injury to all.”
aug 31, 2025, 4:32 am • 7 1 • view
We should remember the history that brought those things to us. It was paid for with a lot of blood 🩸. The labor movement was met with anger and guns. And sometimes on both sides. It took a great president to understand that. We don’t have one now.
aug 31, 2025, 1:41 am • 4 0 • view
I know, I appreciate friends more @rbreich.bsky.social @hwinkler4real.bsky.social @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social @velshi.com Friends matter
aug 31, 2025, 2:55 am • 1 0 • view
Because unions are socialism in practice
aug 31, 2025, 12:03 am • 2 0 • view
First of all, not really. Second, socialism isn't the Boogeyman the Reich wing makes it out to be.
aug 31, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Workers taking charge is kinda the whole point of socialism I know it's not the same as seizing the means of production By Reich wing you mean liberals too right?
aug 31, 2025, 10:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Irony is: If you have a blue collar job, you likely work every weekend. If you have a white collar job, it's common to have weekends off. You're welcome.
aug 31, 2025, 12:27 am • 7 0 • view
Someone doesn't know the difference between blue and white collar jobs. As someone who worked a hybrid version of both, I can tell you that's not true. I was salary and was on call 24/7. As a rule, the military doesn't pay by the hour. I've also worked hourly jobs and a normal week was 40 hours.
aug 31, 2025, 1:57 am • 1 0 • view
No, actually not true. I earned degrees (for which I paid personally) and was white collar for all of my career. It was the norm to work 60-80 hour weeks just to keep my job. We were salary slaves. Maybe not the same in marketing or HR but ask any CPA or attorney and they’ll tell you the same.
aug 31, 2025, 12:58 am • 8 0 • view
The point is hours of work, not who gets weekends off. Or do you think air traffic controllers, law enforcement, nurses, doctors and EMTs, forest service employees, retail workers and the military get the weekend off?
aug 31, 2025, 2:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Reliable work force for employers.
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 am • 1 0 • view
I worked for a Union for 15 years! It was wonderful compared to my other jobs! I didn’t mind working hard because I was paid well and always had a voice!
aug 31, 2025, 1:19 am • 2 0 • view
DEBBIE DOWNER SAYS: IF SARA FUCK-A-BEE SANDERS CAN BRING BACK CHILD LABOR- ALL THE RED STATES WILL BRING BACK CHILD LABOR. JUST WAIT!
aug 31, 2025, 12:51 am • 4 0 • view
& in Canada, they provided the impetus for universal, single-payer medical insurance. They founded the New Democratic Party, which forced the Liberal Party, after a half-century of promising universal healthcare, to implement it. The Libs were a minority gov't dependent on the NDP to stay in office.
aug 31, 2025, 4:30 am • 1 0 • view
Support during workplace disputes.
aug 31, 2025, 7:30 am • 0 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 4:43 am • 17 1 • view
Protection for nurses from forced overtime and dangerous working conditions.
aug 31, 2025, 2:07 am • 7 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 11:53 am • 1 0 • view
Long ago, undecided. Good for workers, but sometimes strangled business, making prices higher. Then around 1988, saw docu-drama on PBS about Clarence Darrow, pre-Scopes, fighting for basic worker rights and health. Now I think unions are mostly good, but there are abuses of power.
aug 31, 2025, 6:51 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 12:22 am • 8 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 12:21 am • 57 24 • view
Equal pay acts…
aug 31, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
Republican politicians and republican voters love to bitch about unions, and then kick back and enjoy the many benefits they get because of unions.
aug 31, 2025, 1:30 am • 37 3 • view
This. In the UK you often see the meme 'socialism doesn't work' trotted out by people who enjoyed free education and healthcare, annual leave, maternity leave, paternity leave, workplace legislation to protect employee rights and much more, all campaigned for, and fought for, by Trades Unions.
aug 31, 2025, 10:20 am • 20 2 • view
Union strong! A lot of America's problems are the result of letting the RWNJs destroy your unions.
aug 31, 2025, 5:15 am • 1 0 • view
AMEN!
aug 31, 2025, 12:13 am • 9 0 • view
Equal opportunity for women & men. Seniority😎🖖🏼🇺🇸
aug 31, 2025, 12:33 am • 12 0 • view
In my entire career I did the same work as the men and was paid the same wage, received the same access to benefits. Not all women are so fortunate. Did the unions have to fight to make it so and improve our wages and benefits as the years advanced? Yes they did. Worked in a 24/7 year round job.
aug 31, 2025, 6:03 am • 7 1 • view
It’s the best way to not have a company screw you over as an employee. I believe they have HR. I want Starbucks to unionize. Companies are getting away with horrible pay and horrible work conditions. I’d like to see more unions in the United States. Go Norma Ray!!!
aug 31, 2025, 1:23 am • 2 0 • view
Negotiating power!
sep 1, 2025, 3:45 am • 1 0 • view
It’s ironic to see people still be anti-union despite enjoying the benefits that unions made possible for them. Start paying those people in company certificates that can only be used at the company store and see how they like it.
aug 31, 2025, 1:28 am • 1 0 • view
Bad attitudes. Lackadaisical work effort. Sense of entitlement. Cause prices of goods to increase.
aug 31, 2025, 4:33 am • 0 0 • view
You seem to be bothered by everything, are you alright?
aug 31, 2025, 9:58 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, that happens, but the cost of it is low on the grand scheme of things. Most people want to do a good job. I'd rather 1 or 2 slackers get away with it than a billionaire sticking it to us. Actually, I'd bet over time, the slackers coworkers would though him under the bus.
aug 31, 2025, 5:02 am • 1 0 • view
Overtime pay.
aug 31, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
And Epstein files
aug 31, 2025, 5:33 am • 1 0 • view
Can't fire you without just cause.
aug 31, 2025, 12:39 am • 1 0 • view
Protection from Management
aug 31, 2025, 1:04 am • 11 0 • view
I’m a union member. Best decision I’ve ever made after starting my family. Best thing is, the good pay, medical benefits, job placement, and robust pension has allowed me and my family to live a relatively comfortable life. I work hard every day, but thanks to the IBEW, I’m justly compensated.
aug 31, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
I'll finish, as a European - Paid maternity leave - Paid paternity leave - Universal healthcare - 36/38-hour workweek - No phonecalls/emails/work during off-hours - Keep CEO pay in moderation (the average in Europe is something like 33x median, I think?) - etc.
aug 31, 2025, 12:37 am • 41 3 • view
Oh, before I forget: mandatory 4/5/6 week paid holiday, paid for by a mandatory 8% reservation on top of your wages.
aug 31, 2025, 12:43 am • 2 0 • view
ps. Keeping CEO pay in check was a Union achievement in Europe, for as far as I remember.
aug 31, 2025, 12:39 am • 22 2 • view
Keeping CEO pay in check seems most critical to me! Our average in top 500 in the U.S. is like 300:1. Absolutely insane. I read that the ideal for economic democracy is like 7:1, but we were once close to that 33:1 like Europe, after FDR. Having more co-ops would help.
aug 31, 2025, 1:20 pm • 4 0 • view
Sounds right
aug 31, 2025, 2:56 am • 1 0 • view
Exactly 👍🏻. I worked part of my 30+ years railroad career as a union employee.
aug 31, 2025, 2:25 am • 8 0 • view
Paid maternity leave Paid domestic violence leave 4 weeks paid vacation Higher wages on weekends and public holidays Same job, same pay Industry wide pay rates Right to disengage on own time
aug 31, 2025, 1:12 am • 3 0 • view
Maternity leave (it could be better & add paternity leave)
aug 31, 2025, 12:06 am • 20 0 • view
Canada has it.
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 am • 12 0 • view
👍🏼
aug 31, 2025, 1:31 am • 5 0 • view
Union family healthcare could be better. A lot better.
aug 31, 2025, 2:25 am • 2 0 • view
Absolutely! Check out the following physician led website: www.pnhp.org
aug 31, 2025, 12:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Nah. Having children is a choice. Pay for it yourself. And who has to step up when other people are on leave? It isn't the boss.
aug 31, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Says someone who probably can afford the insurance.
aug 31, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
• Established the 8-hour workday and 40-hour workweek • Secured minimum wage laws • Advocated workers' compensation laws • Helped create Social Security • Championed civil rights and equal pay • Provided workers collective bargaining for raises and fair conditions • Strengthened the middle class
aug 31, 2025, 1:59 am • 33 8 • view
I'd add: Parental leave (at least for those of us who are union members outside of the US) and collective bargaining. Oh, and tea breaks. 🫖🧐
aug 31, 2025, 12:03 am • 17 0 • view
Some U.S. unions have negotiated paid parental leave into their contracts
aug 31, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Bet it's not up to 12 months though
aug 31, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Definitely not 12 months.
aug 31, 2025, 10:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm in a union and I get literally none of those things. Still paying dues, though.
aug 31, 2025, 1:46 am • 1 0 • view
I think unions have lost a lot of their power. The ruling class has convinced the working class that unions are bad. And they have also managed to make union leaders part of the ruling class - and so those leaders started to make questionable choices for the people they are supposed to represent.
aug 31, 2025, 2:21 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah unfortunately. I was very upset that I had to pay dues for basically nothing. The initial fee was like $100 and I just straight up didn't pay until we had to do an orientation where they basically told us all they can do is maybe protect us from getting fired.. maybe.
aug 31, 2025, 2:29 am • 1 0 • view
Same here. When I got hired, my contract said I was eligible to join a union. When we had a meeting to create a bargaining unit, they just waffled around for 2 hours. Said they need a president, secretary etc and several people volunteered. And then NOTHING. I paid dues for a while and then stopped.
aug 31, 2025, 2:36 am • 2 0 • view
It sucks. There's really no winning. I don't think I have the option to stop paying. I haven't looked into it. I don't pay much, but it's paying for nothing that really makes me mad cuz I don't think they could protect me anyway with the laws being what they are now.
aug 31, 2025, 2:56 am • 1 0 • view
I just stopped paying. Was pretty sure they won’t sue me. I am 100% pro-union, the whole thing honestly pisses me off. But most people aren’t ready to hold anybody accountable for anything. Or to fight. Unions are only as good as their collective membership.
aug 31, 2025, 3:13 am • 2 0 • view
Pensions
aug 31, 2025, 2:42 am • 1 0 • view
Healthcare and retirement benefits were lost in the 90's. No company pays for medical anymore. Unless you think that 500.00$ monthly premium that has a 5000.00$ spend down in- network, 7000.00$ out- of network is a benefit. Co- pays and prescriptions are extras.
aug 31, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Teamster and love my union. Not so much Sean O Brien but hopefully we can remedy that with a vote out!
aug 31, 2025, 4:04 pm • 2 0 • view
If it’s the standard wages of $66 minimum wage existed, we wouldn’t have union. We can cover our own health care without employer’s input.
aug 31, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
If you don’t know what a deranged egomaniac looks like…here ya go! “FORCED” every cabinet member to praise him on national TV- and they humiliated themselves and did it! USA you better wake up!! A SICK SICK MIND!!
aug 31, 2025, 2:01 am • 2 0 • view
yes, more of this
aug 31, 2025, 6:42 am • 0 0 • view
40-hour week Job security Home ownership Safe work conditions EAP An advocate in disciplinary situations
aug 31, 2025, 12:54 am • 4 0 • view
Unions can be a force for good, however they too can become greedy and abusive.
aug 31, 2025, 1:22 am • 2 0 • view
A union turns a job into a career. Respect!
aug 31, 2025, 6:01 am • 5 0 • view
Higher cost of goods to all Americans.
aug 31, 2025, 1:23 am • 2 0 • view
Tariffs are a guaranteed higher cost to all Americans. #dumpTrump and his supporters (like you).
aug 31, 2025, 1:33 am • 3 0 • view
They provide the opportunity to earn enough to walk with your head up with pride. The only thing between a living wage and poverty.
aug 31, 2025, 3:40 am • 1 0 • view
All of the above
aug 31, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
The power of collective bargaining (vs going it alone).
aug 31, 2025, 1:20 am • 3 0 • view
All of the above!!
aug 31, 2025, 2:38 am • 1 0 • view
In public education districts automatically get COLA (cost of living allowance). Districts don't pass that on to their people unless the union negotiate for it. If the school won't negotiate there are legal channels to force them into it.
aug 31, 2025, 1:28 am • 1 0 • view
Employers used to take advantage of employees but unions got laws passed to protect us!
aug 31, 2025, 8:42 pm • 2 1 • view
40 hr week. Overtime pay. My dad was a union man.
aug 31, 2025, 12:36 am • 7 0 • view
THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH !!!! Union Strong 💪🏾
aug 31, 2025, 2:26 am • 4 0 • view
Because you can’t be fired unless there’s Cause !
aug 31, 2025, 12:46 am • 7 0 • view
My appreciation for my teachers' union skyrocketed this morning, when my first retirement check arrived in the mail. Yet another reason why CA rocks. My local union negotiated w/ our district years ago to extend retirees' medical coverage until we're eligible for Medicare. (If it still exists.)
aug 31, 2025, 2:46 am • 5 0 • view
That medical coverage is incredibly valuable. Glad you have that
aug 31, 2025, 12:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Thanks, Bill.
aug 31, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
The labor unions in Sweden (and Scandinavia) have been instrumental in the development of social benefits, all listed here and more. Nobody has to starve, everybody has the right to proper housing and fair wages. Anybody can study to become a professor. That's what made Scandinavia top notch.
aug 31, 2025, 5:44 am • 3 0 • view
And a great retirement plan!
aug 31, 2025, 6:09 am • 1 0 • view
I know it made a difference to my mom and her parents during the depression. And a whole lot of other people, too.
aug 31, 2025, 2:26 am • 1 0 • view
8 hrs work days 40 hrs work weeks Unemployment Benefit Workers Compensation Laws Family & Medical Leave
aug 31, 2025, 1:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Pension so i don't have to work at walmart at age 70.
aug 31, 2025, 1:23 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 1:01 am • 110 26 • view
I here Josy Hawley calling out Boeing CEO for making 30 million, and employees getting 1% raise. Josh is becoming very liberal 🤣
sep 1, 2025, 12:32 am • 2 0 • view
I think it's helping you to tell you that you shouldn't use emojis unless they have merit. I see the joke and it really isn't worth a 🤣 It's not good
sep 1, 2025, 5:28 am • 0 0 • view
A history professor of mine (long ago) made a convincing case to assume that unionization saved the U.S. Essentially Karl Marx was correct that eventually it would come down to capital vs labor and necessarily the latter would take over and the entire nation... unless they discovered unionization.
aug 31, 2025, 2:59 am • 2 0 • view
Fair Work:Worker Ratio
aug 31, 2025, 12:26 am • 9 0 • view
Never worked for a union, but worked for companies that said 'we don't need unions, because we have an open-door policy'. I dared to use it, but no one told me it was the 'you're out next exit'. They looked hard for reasons to fire me, finally got me with the 'we're downsizing' line.
aug 31, 2025, 4:54 pm • 1 0 • view
you don't work for a union, it works for you
aug 31, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Meant never worked for a company that had a union.
sep 1, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
Worker protections
aug 31, 2025, 6:08 pm • 2 0 • view
8 hour shifts. 5 day work weeks.
aug 31, 2025, 2:12 am • 2 0 • view
Pension my dad died in May up until May he received a pension every month he passed at 92
aug 31, 2025, 12:52 am • 3 0 • view
Other than 8 hour day 5 day week Sick pay Paid holidays Penalty rates Minimum wage Long service leave Workplace Health & Safety Awards bargaining Freedom from arbitrary dismissal What has your union ever done for you?
aug 31, 2025, 1:55 am • 5 0 • view
And so much more in Australia, including paid maternity leave & paid penalty rates.
aug 31, 2025, 12:17 am • 48 5 • view
In Aussie, is there paternity leave? Canada has it.
aug 31, 2025, 12:46 am • 21 0 • view
Yes, it has recently been introduced by the Albanese Labor Government.
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 am • 17 0 • view
Paternity leave in the UK too, since 2003 Introduced by a Labour government, of course 🌹
aug 31, 2025, 9:18 am • 0 0 • view
The Liberals wouldn’t want to give paternity leave as it would cost all those rich business owners too much!
aug 31, 2025, 9:19 am • 3 0 • view
When the minimum wage is less than a large cup of Joe at specialty barista, why would you not support Unions?
aug 31, 2025, 3:39 am • 5 0 • view
Ignorance is the only reason I can come up with.
aug 31, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 0 • view
A legally binding contract that defines all aspects of the designated job. No performing jobs you didn’t sign up for.
aug 31, 2025, 12:39 am • 3 0 • view
Maternaty (parental)leave (Canada)
aug 31, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
The size of every pay packet, including as a manager.
aug 31, 2025, 9:48 am • 0 0 • view
Unless you work in the service/retail industry…then you get none of that 🤷🏻 Yes…I’m pro-union
aug 31, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
No retaliatory demotions or dismissals
aug 31, 2025, 12:53 am • 2 0 • view
Nearly no American workers belong to a union bc they stopped organizing after they made it good. These benefits r thus resented by more exploited workers. The unions failed in the US so badly that they r the only labor force in the West without a real labor/socialist party to represent them in gov.
aug 31, 2025, 4:16 am • 0 0 • view
Born into one, will die in one. Union Data is real, empirical. Try one month without Union Representation all over this ignorant country. Whining, crying, hand wringing. Worse than Susan Collins being concerned.
aug 31, 2025, 1:10 am • 2 0 • view
Salaries
aug 31, 2025, 1:34 am • 4 0 • view
💯💯💯
aug 31, 2025, 7:24 am • 0 0 • view
This is very important for those of us who have not inherited things from our parents like the orange one.
aug 31, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
#IBEW #UnionStrong
aug 31, 2025, 1:30 am • 1 0 • view
My husband and I, in our late 70s, have been the beneficiaries of all the above, which were earned after 31 years of factory work and made possible by a union.
aug 31, 2025, 12:33 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 1:21 am • 3 0 • view
Love my union, NALC, @lettercarriers.bsky.social
aug 31, 2025, 12:43 am • 3 0 • view
You are delusional if you think Unions give you weekends off. Only teachers get them off Lots of non- union employers give paid vacations, work breaks, sick leave etc. Unions have childish temper tantrums & go on strike to hurt those affected by their strike. Disgusting!
aug 31, 2025, 2:37 am • 2 0 • view
I make 40% more pay and get health care with my union vs non-union.
aug 31, 2025, 4:34 am • 4 0 • view
If we keep giving those types of things to workers, we will never be able to maintain the 290:1 CEO to worker pay ratio.
aug 31, 2025, 1:03 am • 3 0 • view
Accountants, business owners, doctors and lawyers are all in unions. It makes financial sense. They just call them different names, Chambers of Commerce, the AMA etc
aug 31, 2025, 4:05 am • 4 0 • view
Looks like the Democrats had some success
aug 31, 2025, 12:32 am • 3 0 • view
Because WE ARE ONE more perfect Union included within this Union the Laws of the Union Information of the State of the Union into this Union State in this Union Not a Republic, Democracy NOR a Sovereign Nation as Scotus called us then took a 10th reserved power over immigration gave it to Congress
aug 31, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Unions can be great.But what about the millions of people working for small companies who aren't in a union?That creates a disadvantaged socio-economic class.If unions really cared about others they would reach out to help the disenfranchised. What I see are unions using a system for themselves.
aug 31, 2025, 12:33 am • 3 0 • view
Canada, Europe, and Scandinavian countries has out paced the USA with unions. Union representation are on most corporate boards. Doubt we’ll ever see that happening here.
aug 31, 2025, 12:55 am • 5 0 • view
too much greed in this country
aug 31, 2025, 1:36 pm • 1 0 • view
This is the reasons the plutocracy needs to kill them. Giving mere workers a bigger piece of the pie might result in them having to arrive in a smaller jet. How could they show their face at Davos?
aug 31, 2025, 11:10 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 6:50 am • 2 0 • view
And those companies are still making money
aug 31, 2025, 12:22 am • 6 0 • view
Yessssss that is right those who have union jobs know this too well. Thanks Robert
aug 31, 2025, 12:23 am • 8 0 • view
Unions are great! They keep greedy corporations in place. Anyone who tells you trickle down economics works.. is full of shit. Social organization like Unions are good for the people and the country. Hence social security..thats the money through ur taxes in retirement. Like it or not its here.
aug 31, 2025, 5:45 am • 1 0 • view
As a member of CFM Local 10-208 in '60s-'70s, I played drums on 2,500 gigs, and other than twice, always got paid. Non-union musicians always got stiffed.
aug 31, 2025, 6:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Solidarity feels great.
aug 31, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
professor, I'm a chicagoan, so I appreciate unions for the original reasons
aug 31, 2025, 2:26 am • 3 0 • view
Sounds like Canada to me!
aug 31, 2025, 7:48 pm • 2 0 • view
We have Labor Day thanks to a union.
aug 31, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Equil pay for equil work regardless of age, gender or race.
aug 31, 2025, 1:22 am • 2 0 • view
It’s one of the beliefs instilled in me by my parents. I was taught to be an activist, to support what I believe in, and that everyone should have the potential to make a decent life for themselves. They were very pro labor and pro education. My mother was a teacher by training.
aug 31, 2025, 5:33 am • 3 0 • view
As a teacher, not being forced to work extra duty without extra pay is pretty nice.Thank you, GUEA.
aug 31, 2025, 12:16 am • 18 1 • view
Equal pay for women and men who are doing the same job. Maternity and paternity leave Salary increases in line with inflation No child labor Work accommodations for people who have different abilities or limitations. Wheelchair accessible Accountability for workplace harassment/abuse.
aug 31, 2025, 12:44 am • 85 6 • view
Thank you for pointing this out.
aug 31, 2025, 1:41 am • 3 0 • view
Oh well forget about maternity leave, they want women out of the workforce completely.
aug 31, 2025, 2:23 am • 19 0 • view
I'm staying in Canada. 😁 Join us.
aug 31, 2025, 6:15 am • 20 0 • view
Can we do that? How open is Canada to immigrants?
aug 31, 2025, 8:55 pm • 2 0 • view
We are in a special category, absolutely.
aug 31, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
You're lucky. I'm jealous. I'd love to emigrate to Canada. I'd move to Nova Scotia.
aug 31, 2025, 9:32 pm • 0 0 • view
If only …
sep 1, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
Compared to Canada, the US has virtually no employee protections. Mandated vacation? Unheard of! I'm an American living in Canada and I don't ever see myself moving back.
aug 31, 2025, 2:59 pm • 12 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 3:35 pm • 4 0 • view
It’s so depressing that I am not there.
sep 1, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
There is literally no protections for ANY American group.
aug 31, 2025, 3:22 pm • 1 0 • view
That's inaccurate, there are protections but there are no mandated benefits, other than worker's comp.
aug 31, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump has defunded all of them and hollowed them of staff to divert money to his meme, crypto scam, lCE and his Gestapo.
aug 31, 2025, 3:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Nonetheless, there are still federal and state level protections. Whether those laws will be enforced is, of course, another thing altogether.
aug 31, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd consider it but at 72 I don't have the money. But if I get to come back, I'd love to grow up in the Canadian way.
aug 31, 2025, 1:55 pm • 0 0 • view
I hear ya. Same here, about to turn 73. Too late for us.
aug 31, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 12:56 am • 0 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 3:28 am • 0 0 • view
I have a friend in Quebec who says the same. It's becoming seriously tempting.
aug 31, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you to teacher’s unions for caps on class size 😁
aug 31, 2025, 9:23 am • 2 0 • view
...scaled pay increases every six months to a year
aug 31, 2025, 1:57 am • 3 0 • view
Representation.
aug 31, 2025, 1:19 am • 2 0 • view
At 41, I was able to get a good UNION JOB with a pension plan. At 70 I retired. I thought I was set. Trump’s Project 2025’ers in office are taking away my Social Security, but they can’t take away my Pension. I will need a job to replace what Trump stole from me. Why pay Social Security?
aug 31, 2025, 11:50 am • 1 0 • view
Unions fought to work a 9 hour day from a 12 hour standard. Yes, they worked friggin hard and fought so we could work a reasonable 8 hour day. 🙏
aug 31, 2025, 12:46 am • 8 0 • view
You're not working fourteen hours a day because six unionists died protesting that shit.
aug 31, 2025, 4:56 am • 10 0 • view
Add Pensions to your list First of every month I praise my union now that I am retired.
aug 31, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Democrats need to start impeachment of rfk jr, Noem, patel and all cronies! I hear earst is not seeking reelection-Iowa senate, lt governor Duncan just flipped to a democrat in Georgia, Collins in Maine has gotten her butt handed to her and is losing badly in the polls! Let’s make this happen people
aug 31, 2025, 3:41 am • 13 0 • view
I would argue the health care part, but fir the most part it is not the unions fault.
aug 31, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I was able to retire at 59 and a half because I belonged to a UNION!
aug 31, 2025, 2:28 am • 5 0 • view
Local 165 retired. 👍
aug 31, 2025, 3:33 am • 2 0 • view
Local 226!
aug 31, 2025, 11:08 am • 1 0 • view
Fair wages. There would be no middle class without them.
aug 31, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
That's the list!
aug 31, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Unions actually give workers some leverage in any dispute or difference of opinion - say the setting of wages. No one worker has any negotiating power with a powerful employer. One can think their unique skill/talent protects them, but not for long. The only power one has is to quit. Employers can
aug 31, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Lose a single employee or a few, but they can rarely survive a long work stoppage if a large group of employees walk out. Companies “hate” unions because they want everything based on their terms. TMany get all excited about the idea of eliminating their workforces completely. Hence all the 3)
aug 31, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
3) excitement about automation and AI. They just cannot fathom that investing in human capital can lead to far greater productivity and profitability long term because humans have the ability to create and adapt. Any machine, including AI, gives repetitive results without human brainpower involved
aug 31, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
AI doesn’t “think,” doesn’t “process” it is superior at organizing data or inputs but it has no way to decide the relative importance or to connect two disparate tactless ie turn 1+1 into 3 or more. It is tied to whatever info has been used to “teach” it. That I think is its main weakness. It has
aug 31, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Been trained on a model of how the brain processes information that is only theoretical. Only now is advanced technology providing insights, often contradictory, about how the brain works.
aug 31, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
And this is just america, look at europe what unions managed there.
aug 31, 2025, 8:02 am • 1 0 • view
As a third-generation union family, all of the above! Abd, a place at the decision-making table.
aug 31, 2025, 1:35 am • 4 1 • view
'weekend' as a concept; that there should be rest. 8 hour work day
aug 31, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Because it looks as if they might be the only ones willing to actually fight for our rights and I'm wondering if we'll be seeing a new political party; The American Union Party. I've never been in a union but I'd definitely vote for any party willing to actually fight.
aug 31, 2025, 6:21 am • 0 0 • view
Non-union workers have enjoyed the benefits that union workers have fought for.
aug 31, 2025, 6:26 am • 1 0 • view
Non Union workers lose those rights very quickly when they are not in a union.
aug 31, 2025, 7:13 am • 1 0 • view
No weekends off for this business which makes luxury interiors for private jets: primadonnalux.com
aug 31, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Decent pay
aug 31, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Unions make everyone stronger.
aug 31, 2025, 11:56 pm • 0 0 • view
* Professional negotiator on MY side to go up against the pro's on the employer side. (I have strong skills in other areas, I suck at asking for good wages and benefits.)
aug 31, 2025, 2:23 am • 1 0 • view
Unions are a good thing. I don't get raises every year, I get bullied and they don't care, I get the job done. They don't care
aug 31, 2025, 1:31 am • 1 0 • view
I believe the list includes a 5 day work week, (instead of 6 days).
aug 31, 2025, 5:14 am • 2 0 • view
When you are working a union gig you have a CONTRACT that defines the responsibilities, hours, compensation - a CONTRACT negotiated by professionals, and enforced by a Business Agent and President of your local. You have a CONTRACT, just like the CEO of the company, although the terms are different!
aug 31, 2025, 5:58 pm • 1 0 • view
📌
aug 31, 2025, 10:22 am • 0 0 • view
They’re great spaces to learn about building community, organizing movements, outreach programs, & other essential components of a functioning democracy. Unions are to me an indispensable part of the dream of democracy, bc they offer us a space to practice & enact democracy at a most intimate level
aug 31, 2025, 2:05 am • 9 0 • view
This Labor Day I’d like to invite every billionaire to ponder upon the fact that we established labor strikes as an alternative to dragging the boss out of his home and beating him to death on his lawn in front of his family.
aug 31, 2025, 11:01 am • 1 1 • view
40 hr work week 40 hrs work = 40 hrs pay
aug 31, 2025, 2:48 am • 1 0 • view
Fair treatment (when it works for its members) Protection from different kinds of workplace abuse The right to strike ...and more (Proud granddaughter of a blacklisted union organizer here)
aug 31, 2025, 2:45 am • 8 0 • view
RESPECT given when prior employees were treated like cattle
aug 31, 2025, 2:28 am • 4 0 • view
Opening skilled trades jobs to women Supporting equal pay for equal work.
aug 31, 2025, 12:53 am • 1 0 • view
Unions are the reason we have a middle class.
aug 31, 2025, 10:36 am • 8 0 • view
The only classes are the capitalist class and the working class.
aug 31, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
PAID MATERNITY LEAVE
aug 31, 2025, 2:28 am • 1 0 • view
Fair firing guidelines. Have seen many people get fired for pissing off the wrong person.
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 am • 1 0 • view
Awesome pension!
aug 31, 2025, 12:52 am • 1 0 • view
Standing with "David" against "Goliath"
aug 31, 2025, 12:06 am • 34 1 • view
I'm grateful to CWA & USWA!
aug 31, 2025, 5:10 am • 1 0 • view
Great 401k match insuring a comfortable retirement.
aug 31, 2025, 5:03 am • 1 0 • view
In construction the benefit to being a union company was all the PLA agreements for union only work. PLA’s are becoming rare so now all non union companies can bid on public jobs and pay prevailing wage then go back to paying shit wages for private jobs whereas union companies can’t compete
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 am • 2 0 • view
Which leaves the union companies scrambling for work with their hands tied. Union representatives need to start doing their fucking jobs and securing PLA jobs instead of sitting on their ass riding the coattails of the workers. Union representatives have gotten fucking lazy
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 am • 3 0 • view
I love unions for all those reasons and because Unions defend us against bad administrators who try their best to thwart your work.
aug 31, 2025, 1:32 am • 2 0 • view
I'd vote for you if you ran, Robert! We can all dream.
aug 31, 2025, 1:41 am • 3 0 • view
You forgot one: paid apprenticeship
aug 31, 2025, 1:51 am • 3 0 • view
Yes, most of the time, but not for teachers, sadly.
aug 31, 2025, 2:13 am • 4 0 • view
For most of my working life, I've never known the benefits of a union. Then again, I guess you can't defend the nation when you're on your coffee break
aug 31, 2025, 2:18 am • 3 0 • view
Chicago Teachers Union is extremely powerful and can be helpful. A coworker needed to pump milk daily for her baby, and the principal told her to use an unsanitary bathroom stall. One call to her union rep, and the principal quickly found a clean, private room for her to use and apologized.
aug 31, 2025, 2:38 am • 8 2 • view
That's a more educational vocation requiring credentials that unions can't give. Teachers deserve way more pay than what they've been historically getting. Aside from teaching, unions teach you a trade and skills without incurring college debt.
aug 31, 2025, 2:15 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, but college professors also have a union, so the costs/wages could be covered for teachers as well. Student teacher's costs/ fees are higher, but wages are lower than for most union workers. Our lawmakers/unions could do more for educators. Biden tried. McConnell's Congress said no.
aug 31, 2025, 2:59 am • 1 0 • view
Well at least you know who to blame. As it is, if we didn't control both the house and Senate during Biden's first two years, the pact act would never have made it.
aug 31, 2025, 4:06 am • 0 0 • view
Job security.
aug 31, 2025, 12:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Higher pay & collective bargaining power! 💪
aug 31, 2025, 3:34 pm • 1 0 • view
“Don’t wait until freedom is gone to regret its loss. FREEDOM isn’t GOD-GIVEN; it is FOUGHT for by the PEOPLE”
aug 31, 2025, 8:18 am • 1 0 • view
A sense of personal power
aug 31, 2025, 1:07 am • 2 0 • view
Where the hell are the unions right now? It’s just crickets from them. Where are the Teamsters and the other big national unions? These policy are hurting their people.
aug 31, 2025, 4:53 am • 0 0 • view
The teamsters general president backed trump. So you have that for a reason.
aug 31, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
8-hour days
aug 31, 2025, 1:32 am • 3 0 • view
Congress already has all this.
aug 31, 2025, 12:31 am • 3 0 • view
A needed check on cronyism (making mgmt follow their own rules for everyone) Agency for workers to have input into workplace changes Ensuring proper and timely training of new people/software/equipment Flexible work schedules
aug 31, 2025, 12:13 am • 15 0 • view
Welcome to the 2nd American Civil War brought to you by the corrupt SCOTUS & GOP cowards. The 4th Reich would appreciate all Americans to be true patriots and civilly cooperate with your imprisonment and enslaved labor to the oligarchy.
aug 31, 2025, 3:47 am • 5 1 • view
No child labor, good working conditions, healthcare benefits, good wages, holidays off and support if something happens to you on the job....
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 am • 1 0 • view
Good pay and over-time
aug 31, 2025, 1:59 am • 3 0 • view
Why don’t the rich employers like them … because they have been made to do these things which cost them money. The same way Trump is trying to run the country … cut back on or eliminate as many taxpayer funded benefits that they can receive … back to the dark ages.
aug 31, 2025, 12:52 am • 1 0 • view
Best EVER!!
aug 31, 2025, 9:03 pm • 1 1 • view
There are people in this country who think Labor Day was created to signify the last day of summer? What Republican nonsense are they teaching now?
aug 31, 2025, 12:08 am • 30 0 • view
They also think memorial day is about picnics,parties,beach and fireworks
aug 31, 2025, 3:20 am • 10 0 • view
I was paid closer to what my work was worth.
aug 31, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Better Pay and overtime
aug 31, 2025, 12:15 am • 22 0 • view
My pension
aug 31, 2025, 3:11 am • 2 0 • view
This one’s for the idiot Union guys whom vote Republican. You know who you are. Hang your heads in shame.
aug 31, 2025, 3:21 pm • 2 0 • view
I was 18. Showed up to work. There were people outside with signs. I went in. Came out after my shift to find my tires slashed and ‘scab’ painted on my car. Union workers gained 3 cents in their paycheck. Because of a union.
aug 31, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Throw on top of all the employee benefits it's also often a cheap management solution for businesses as employee complaints and concerns are often consolidated and then reported to the company by 1 person, making the whole process faster, more efficient, and often less expensive for the company.
aug 31, 2025, 12:31 am • 4 0 • view
These are hard-won gains that Trump’s war on unions is intended to curtail, if not eliminate. Anything to sustain the upward flow of wealth from the working/middle class to his billionaire puppeteers.
aug 31, 2025, 4:01 am • 3 0 • view
We are the only ones standing between Managmemt and our members!
aug 31, 2025, 2:44 am • 2 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 5:10 am • 1 0 • view