Being angry at your union is a blessing you should not overlook.
Two things to think about:
1) Without a union, you have no voice about your working environment, pay, benefits and future. Your family and you, are at the whims of personal feelings of your supervisor or boss, or at the mercy of a “business decision.”
No matter the time you’ve worked at your job, or whether you have done anything wrong, you can be let go with no concern for your well-being. None.
That’s neither propaganda or rhetoric. It’s a fact.
Most people have seen or experienced severe unfairness and even cruelty at work that was undeserved and unearned. But a Union Boss runs an organization that can help you there:
Big Business Bosses run a business through actions and contracts that focuses on business.
A Union Boss runs a business on actions and contracts focused on you.
2) Union members run the union and there is a legal structure in place to make your voice have authority, effectiveness and power. That is a fact that should never be forgotten or overlooked.
I was once anti-union.
And at a company where we both worked, I saw my wife treated so unfairly it defied ethical behavior, but there was nothing that could be done.
My favorite person in the world, lost her job because of a big boss’s personal animus towards her.
A non-union company can terminate you without a reason.
The “right to work” activists always like to point out that there are “still 22 states that are not Right To Work,” but they never mention that there are 49-states that have what is called “At Will” employment conditions in place.
Meaning, that without a union contract, your boss or supervisor can fire you without a reason.
Yeah, “right to work” should really be labeled:
“Right To Work Without Rights!”
If you think of your job as a career, or you have put in years at one job and think that is worth something, you can lose everything . . . at the whim or desire of a supervisor or boss.
It is the 21st century. Where rights are not a privilege endowed by a group of elites or superiors but are decided by the people and for the people.
Before buying into the sweet sounding voice of saving money by not paying union dues, think about what is secured and assured by union membership. And think about the missing support from the “Right To Work” organizations to encourage what should be the honest thing to encourage: protecting yourself and family by being in a union.