• Vanth@reddthat.com
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    5 hours ago

    I work in a manufacturing facility where the assemblers, mechanics, machinists, and technicians, are unionized. My white collar, not unionized colleagues simultaneously express jealousy about the benefits the union members get while also saying they shouldn’t exist while also complaining their own salaries are too low and not keeping up with inflation.

    My dudes, this is what unions are for. If I worked one of the covered jobs, I would join the union in a heartbeat.

    Join them, don’t try to tear them down.

    • weeeeum@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Crazy how union participation peaked in the 50s with 1/3 of the workforce in one, at a time where a man without advanced education could provide for a wife, multiple kids and own a house.

      Crazy that people aren’t rioting in the streets.