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I’ve seen several from this campaign and they’re so dumb I feel like someone was maliciously compliant in making these so that Delta’s opposition to the union would actually encourage more people to vote to join. Like, management came to someone in marketing, but that person actually wanted to support the union effort.
In a lot of countries it would be illegal.
In a lot of countries the unions became powerful enough to be governments, and implemented anti-union busting laws.
For some reason the United States seems to have skipped a bunch of the social development that went on in other countries. Unfortunately this is probably because of the American psyche and their obsession with the idea that rags to riches is possible, despite all the evidence. So nobody wants to limit their own potential wealth by giving away money to the workers, just in case one day they become the wealthy. The end result is that a bunch of people have to work for Amazon.
We have a husk of a shell that we once called the Supreme Court that decided that corporations have a right to free speech.
Toe that with all the benefits of a corporate entity and we end up where corporation speech is more free than that of a person.
While true, this shit was going on just as much back when they were “legitimate”. Anti-Union mind games are an American tradition.
Yes and now we have no tools to fight it. There were rules against anti-union activities; union workers died for those rights.
That’s all null and void and without a change at the highest levels, it will stay that way.
Lol companies in America literally set union organizers’ families on fire well before the modern supreme court.
Yes but that was also before propaganda was a class in college. Now they don’t need to set things on fire, just convince a chunk of workers to vote against unions. The cost to suppress unions has never been cheaper.
The US government literally sent in their military to fight coal miners that were trying to unionize. They backed the coal mining companies. It’s not a new thing.
That’s like one month of US health insurance next year. Way more than worth it over being at the whims of some fuckhead corporation
DENTAL PLAN
Lisa needs braces!
Dental plan…
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Bullseye!
I guess Delta thinks their employees are complete fucking morons.
Well, most of them are Americans…
/flame, I jest
It should be illegal to put up stuff like this.
Yeah, it should not in the “it would be nice” sense, but in the “it’s mental that it isn’t” sense.
It cost them 700, not you. You will gain from an Union
It costs you 700 now and it costs them an unknown amount in the future. They just don’t like it because they suspect it’ll be quite a lot more than the 700 that you’re paying to join. They’re right too.
But union dues are annoying in the moment, because when it happens all you see is a reduction in your pay and initially no change in working conditions. That’s why they have posters like that up, because even though intellectually people understand that being in a union will long-term result in better pay, in the short term it does effectively result in a temporary pay cut, which can be hard if you’re already not really very well paid.
If you’re joining an established union sometimes they will be smart and not charge members until they’ve renegotiated their salaries. But that only happens if you’re joining a already formed union.
Lots of jobs that need unions are jobs that people don’t want to be working in a few years, because they’re terrible jobs with minimal benefits and shit pay. Those people can’t see that the reason the job is so shitty is because there isn’t a union. There’s a good chance that they’d actually want to stay with the job once the union transforms the working conditions and compensation.
Lots of people would be satisfied with a career in a “lesser” job like retail if the job didn’t suck. There’s nothing wrong with being a cashier, cook, custodian, phone attendant, etc for your whole working life if that’s what you want to do, and we should compensate people in those jobs accordingly.
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Remember, if your company is telling you how great something is, it is great for them, not you.
Right, if you ever see an poster or video anywhere, consider that the message was something someone felt was worth spending money on. And if it was a business, why would a business spend money unless it could somehow benefit its bottom line?
Haha my Union Dues… 240/yr.
Pay in the five years before the union…no increase. 20 years of union, pay up 100%.
Scumbags. What the hell is this 'murkin propaganda? It’s like the whole country is unironically trying to become the Sith.
There are always two. The sith and the vice sith. They also now have the palantir for some reason
Somehow real life Ready Player One is worse than the book.
My union dues are about 800 a year, we’d be lucky to make only 10,000 less a year without the union, and have way less protections. Joining a union is one of the best investments you can make.
Classic misdirection: compare dues to a toy instead of the extra pay, healthcare, and protections.
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Dystopic shit.
Utterly hellish. In the UK, which is very far from being a Utopia, this would be almost unthinkable. Real Black Mirror stuff. Sure, the companies may not want you to join the union, but to actively advertise against it is breathtakingly shitty.
Two questions:
- Is this for real?
- Does it work?
I feel like a large company going to that kind of effort to explicitly tell me to not spend money on something would have the exact opposite effect. It’s not like they’re saying “unions are bad, actually” it just like “this thing you were going to spend money on, maybe don’t?”
Imagine a poster saying “Drugs are really expensive - you’ll get more value for money if you buy videogames” - would that work?
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The constant anti-union propaganda has definitely worked in the US
bread andcircusesMeanwhile, republicans have been trying to make video games illegal for over forty years now.
When I worked at Best buy over 10 years ago they had the exact same propaganda. You know instead of union dues you could buy an Xbox! (From us no less!)
…okay I added that last bit but it was implied
Explain how.
Wages can be exchanged for goods and services.
Unions can be exchanged for goods and services.
Onions can be exchanged for bideo bames 👽
It’s a complicated concept but higher wages means you make more money.
Many years ago I had to explain to a coworker how progressive taxation works. He was like “that’s a great idea! We should do that! It’s stupid that now your pay goes up but you take home less because you get taxed more”
I had to tell him, yes it is a good idea. It’s how it works now. You don’t get more pay and suddenly your whole income is taxed more.
He’d had no idea
I’ve literally heard coworkers mention the whole “I actually don’t want a raise because my taxes would go up and I’d make less” bullshit before. I do what I can to redirect them when I hear it, but some people are extremely dug into their worldview and don’t want to be helped. Like acknowledging a progressive tax rate would require acknowledging that their entire concept of income and taxation is built on a lie.
I had an outright argument with one of my own coworkers about this very subject less than six months ago. Even with all of the insane bullshit going on outside today people still just refuse to look up and read any sort of information for themselves.
Higher whatsit? Huh? What are your taking about? These words don’t normally go together I don’t understand.
No they don’t.
Source: a union-busting multinational faceless corporation that I’m a slave to
