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Originally Posted by Blackbird45
Last five years of my career I was the sole negotiated for my local. The one thing I leaned was if employers treated workers fairly unions would not exist. It's not only wages on the table, many times it's also the safety of the employees. I went against the 3 major networks, the Broadway League, the Major studios. You never sit across from a CEOs; you sit across from a group of hired guns who have a parameter they are locked to, and they secure their position by how low they can keep the cost. It doesn't matter if they are not offering a living wage, or they work their employees around the clock, they do what is best for themselves. I don't fault them, they have families and mouths to feed, but so do union members.
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There are some unions that also think of the company their members work for and want to help them to stay profitable.
The ones in the companies I worked for was only interested in keeping up the medical and retirement funds they managed and made it almost impossible to fire a worker who tried their best to do almost nothing all day.
NYC has a room for teachers who are not trusted to be in a room with students. Instead they are kept in one location where they sit and read all day while still getting paid.