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masticatingman posted...

To parrot what Ive heard older guys in my industry say (which is extremely non union friendly, but which does work with other industries who are heavily unionized often), the issues with unions are:

1) they essentially force everybody on the site in a certain position to join and pay fairly large dues...with pretty bad consequences if you refuse
2) you climbing up the pay scale ladder is purely experience based, not based on merit/initiative/skill
3) because of reason number 2, youll run into coworkers that are either inept or extraordinarily lazy
4) whatever the union decides, you gotta abide by

None of this is really my opinion, just shit that Ive heard thrown around.

the union can ask you to join, but they legally can't force you to, and there are no consequences, at least in my workplace. You either join or don't join, the only downside of not joining is that you basically have no voice when it comes to voting time and *sometimes* if you want the union to get involved in something, you will take lower priority, as long as they can prove they acted in good faith it isn't illegal if they uhh don't pursue your case as ruthlessly as they would a paying member.

But the dues here aren't all that large either, it's like 18 bucks out of my paycheck
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