As I scan over the replys to this fair and honest question, I see mostly the uneducated bias of the masses. I am an electritian, I spent five years in the non-union "merit" world, and then orginized. It was the best move I have yet made, not because I lack merit, but because I can earn it even within a labor pool that maintains a high level of merit within itself.
Yes, a labor can protect it's members to a point; however, if you lack the skills then you will not get into the union to start with. If you should be able to fool the local officers into thinking you have the skills, then you will not work long anyway. A union has no power to protect someone who truly should be laid-off/fired. Truth be told, any worker who is displaced/'retrained'/etc for reasons not of their own control can file the same complaints with the Department of Labor that unions often do, but do you have the money to hire your own labor lawyer? If you do then you don't have a complaint.
Strikes are a LAST RESORT and only come after months to years of conflict, and are the right of unions (and technically indiviuals) to use to compel a company the bargining table. This right has been upheld for about a century.
Union contract NEVER place a cap on a member's earnings due to merit. The contract is a minimum for services rendered. I have personally been pain over the 'scale' for my work.
Unions are not perfect, if you could see on the inside, you would see members debating on many things about the trade in the local market, such as what the min. standards for new members and new apprentices are.
I went to an apprentice's school that was paid for by the state with taxes, union schools are not paid for with taxes, but with dues from those who work in the union. Even if you are a union member, you do not have to pay unless you are actually working in the trade in a union position.
I hear many of these arguments when I joined from my own family. I was the first union member in a Republican family. Chose your own politics, don't let someone lead you to them.
Any further comments can be directed to creighto@spunge.org
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It has made my life notably better, perhaps you are just one of the lucky few who can afford to pay for all of this stuff from M$ anyway.
As I scan over the replys to this fair and honest question, I see mostly the uneducated bias of the masses. I am an electritian, I spent five years in the non-union "merit" world, and then orginized. It was the best move I have yet made, not because I lack merit, but because I can earn it even within a labor pool that maintains a high level of merit within itself.
Yes, a labor can protect it's members to a point; however, if you lack the skills then you will not get into the union to start with. If you should be able to fool the local officers into thinking you have the skills, then you will not work long anyway. A union has no power to protect someone who truly should be laid-off/fired. Truth be told, any worker who is displaced/'retrained'/etc for reasons not of their own control can file the same complaints with the Department of Labor that unions often do, but do you have the money to hire your own labor lawyer? If you do then you don't have a complaint.
Strikes are a LAST RESORT and only come after months to years of conflict, and are the right of unions (and technically indiviuals) to use to compel a company the bargining table. This right has been upheld for about a century.
Union contract NEVER place a cap on a member's earnings due to merit. The contract is a minimum for services rendered. I have personally been pain over the 'scale' for my work.
Unions are not perfect, if you could see on the inside, you would see members debating on many things about the trade in the local market, such as what the min. standards for new members and new apprentices are.
I went to an apprentice's school that was paid for by the state with taxes, union schools are not paid for with taxes, but with dues from those who work in the union. Even if you are a union member, you do not have to pay unless you are actually working in the trade in a union position.
I hear many of these arguments when I joined from my own family. I was the first union member in a Republican family. Chose your own politics, don't let someone lead you to them.
Any further comments can be directed to creighto@spunge.org