Mildly Infuriating

Legit had someone from my last job start going on a break room tirade about how "those damn unions just want your money" but strangely had no rebuttal when asked why giving them 2% of your paycheck is a bad thing when they negotiated your RAISE to be 15% and your health benefits add up to an additional savings of around 20%.

I'm SO SORRY you're getting extra money and healthcare rather than the NOTHING you had before.

Nowadays I like to print up cards with unionizing information on them, facts vs myths, links to read up more, anti-union tactics, links to join unions, links to find HELP setting up a union, and basically anything I could cram into a business card. Now I leave about 10 of them any time I go into a non union store.

Given how previous management has reacted to "someone" leaving these in the break room, I'm sure I've caused a few sleepless nights.

My union dues last pay? 30 dollars. My union just got the government of Ontario, the shitbag conservatives, who tried to illegally withhold raises from us, and won. My union guarantees I get a set wage because they bargain for it.

Hasn't Amazon been caught deducting pay arbitrarily from delivery drivers?

In fact, given a lot of them seem to be able to be terminated at a moment's notice, so no guarantees of pay there either. And work rules? What?

Oh and talking to someone paid by the company about your grievances Vs someone independent seems like a worse alternative than the final bubble.

Man, these guys really suck at propaganda

1. The amount paid for dues is greatly exceeded by the benefits of having a union.

2. You ARE guaranteed pay, benefits, and rules because you have a contract with the employer that covers those things.

3. Are these morons suggesting that the union will take over for management?

Boss: kids your age are so incredibly arrogant. You think you deserve the world.

Me: we are the same age.

Boss: huh

This actually happened.

Is union life for you?

It depends. Probably yes, unless your employer pulls shit like this, in which case you should have joined yesterday

No guarantees on pay, benefits, or work rules

Uuuhhhhhhh, isn't that the current state and literally what unions are for? Setting guarantees for all that shit?

They make union dues seem like a big deal, but not unionizing will cost you even more. A union will pay for itself when they negotiate a raise.

You have much fewer guarantees on pay, benefits, and work rules without a union on your side. Amazon can, and does, change policies at will. A union keeps them in check.

Bringing complaints directly to your supervisor or manager will solve nothing, and in the process, it will get you on their shit list. Sometimes, anonymity is priceless.

The fact that they have it on this blatant of a propaganda poster means that unions work.

And going through union for what you need is much more effective and quicker than letting a supervisor/manager drag their feet and kick the ball around, and that's what makes union dues worth it.

"Dues deducted from paycheck" and "typically must go through union instead of your supervisor or manager" are true. At the same time, they're minor inconveniences compared to what a bad employer does to you.

Typically must go through union instead of your supervisor or manager

Major plus in my book.

"Get informed"

Bold of you to tell people to do something that dangerous, Amazon.

I’m from France where unions are kinda everywhere and workers rights well protected : what the hell is this ? Is it real ?

Wait so..having to go through your supervisor and manager is listed as a plus?????? america or not, aint noone likes going through that, usually

The "effective due" is probably even negative because the extra money they'll fight for will be more than the due.

There's no guarantee you will get more money! Get the same money or less guaranteed instead!

Always love it when the people in charge know something is bad for THEM but good for US and they just throw a tasteful graphic spouting some bullshit on a page to change minds. They did this in Columbus about Issue 1 like a month ago, saying how upping the Majority Vote to 60% for state bills was just a good thing, even though it was just to prepare for issue 1 in November to repeal backwards ass Abortion Laws. It was obvious too since it was like all the pamphlet talked about

go through union instead of your supervisor or manager

So they’re threatening workers with a good time? Interesting strategy.

Why sleep in cotton sheets on a spring mattress for $1 in dues when we can offer this manure-soaked bed of straw for only $5 in wage theft?

The union dues from my last pay period was $32.

My pay and benefits were hard fought for and won by my union, including back pay through arbitration when we got stiffed on pay for a particular part of our job for a few years.

When I have a problem, I go to my supervisor. Usually things get fixed. If they don't want to fix it, I go to my union rep and things usually get fixed fast. If they don't, I go to my union grievance officer and things definitely get fixed fast. The last thing my supervisor wants to do is deal with the union rep, let alone the grievance officer, so having those 2 backing me up goes a VERY LONG WAY over just dealing with my supervisor by myself.

Don't believe the propaganda from people with a vested interest against your rights as an employee...

If you want to join a union: https://join-a-union.github.io/

Very Infuriating.

I sharpened the QR code. It reads:

http://www.unpackjfk8.com

Very surprised they didn't put ?campaign=qr, /qr or other such crap in it to measure its effectiveness as opposed to the printed URL.

(Saved you a click: domain is on sale, not used after 2022. Archive)

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Wait... are they saying that I could have sent my employees to the Union instead of endless discussions about next year's pto distribution? Could you not have said that sooner?!

Should be illegal. Vote for pro union protections people!

Disgusting.

Given how big a shitshow Amazon is, both in fulfillment and corporate, I'm shocked that they weren't the first tech company to fully unionise.

Well, I say that knowing that there are lots of people that are extremely anti-union, even those that have suffered due to RTO/RTT, or Amazon's infamous PIP culture.

And I say this knowing that Amazon workers could happily form a union with 250k workers, and Amazon would happily fire them without a thought, even if it actively harmed them.