My questions for those complaining are:
1. How are you specifically being victimized by your store leadership/corporate?
2. What would a union do to fix this?
There was once a time when the only union that a person needed to be successful was the union of their hard work with a positive attitude. And if you truly are being treated like sh-t, then you leave and find a better job.
I, for one, am grateful for my minimum wage job. I know I'll have to work weekends. I know that despite the fact that I am cross trained in five different departments, when payroll is down, I will probably end up with 12-16 hours a week. I know that raises and reviews are based just as much on sales and forecasts as they are on job performance. But in spite of all that, I know that a job is a job. You work it without bitching about it, and if it's not putting food on the table, you use the experience and the connections to find a better job. You don't go crying to papa union to fix your problems. Call me old fashioned, but that's how I see it.
Let the angry responses commence.
I'm not angry, just confused.
What 'once upon a time' are you talking about? the time when little boys hauled coal and little girls worked in factories? Or when men worked in mines and routinely died of black lung? Maybe it was when people worked six days a week as a standard? Those were just a few of the things that unions changed.
Of course, the video casually brushed those important things off saying there are laws now and so unions aren't needed. What they don't mention is that if the stores in the region are heavily unionized the standard salaries are higher so Spot has to pay more to match.
Yes, the retail union are not as strong as the other unions which makes their entire, they won't let you work certain departments or cross train bullshit, absolutely not true.
What they can do, is have a union representative when you are being coached. That's their whole "you won't have direct contact with management". You can talk to them in a positive fashion all you want but if they call you in, you get to have a rep with you and they can speak for you. It's call your Weingarten Rights.
As I said before I was victimized in a way that a union would have helped.
In the current economy finding a new job isn't very easy as I can also tell you.
So yes, a union might not be perfect but it would help a lot.
