NEW ORLEANS—Multibillionaire Elon Musk won and workers lost as a three-judge panel of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the National Labor Relations Board’s structure is unconstitutional.
Oh yeah same. We got ghosted twice by the UFCW local we worked with before we gave up on them where I work. It took quite a while for me to work through that emotionally and made me realize a lot of the union orthodoxy is bullshit and so are those that preach it.
UFCW seems to be one of the worst unfortunately. My first job was a brief stint at a grocery store represented by them. This is when self checkouts were first introduced. Over half of the cashiers were laid off, and a couple had to relocate to stores that would’ve doubled their commute. Before that a cashier told me that when he started his job, there were only like 8 steps to journeyman pay, but during later negotiations it got doubled to 16 or something crazy like that.
I feel for you when it comes to the emotionality of it all. Myself and some of my comrades put our EVERYTHING into that struggle for close to 3 years, just for the department to dissolve just a couple months after the contract was ratified. I’m still kinda fucked up from how terrible and demoralizing it all was and I havent been at that job for nearly a year
The union rep I had lost the fucking COCA-COLA contract here; it probably would’ve been the biggest bargaining unit with the most dues paid for the whole local. Those workers decertified and were super bitter towards unions after. Why would they let that happen if they would get so much notoriety/money out of a unit?
UFCW structures itself with the bureaucratic old guard at the top who care more about loyalty than competence (they do still make a show of it internally but really and truly do not give a fuck) and does extraordinarily cynical math about cost:benefit ratios. A big new unit can actually threaten the power structure as new members expect representation, but it can be hard to tease out incompetence from cynical power hoarding from afar.
Oh yeah same. We got ghosted twice by the UFCW local we worked with before we gave up on them where I work. It took quite a while for me to work through that emotionally and made me realize a lot of the union orthodoxy is bullshit and so are those that preach it.
UFCW seems to be one of the worst unfortunately. My first job was a brief stint at a grocery store represented by them. This is when self checkouts were first introduced. Over half of the cashiers were laid off, and a couple had to relocate to stores that would’ve doubled their commute. Before that a cashier told me that when he started his job, there were only like 8 steps to journeyman pay, but during later negotiations it got doubled to 16 or something crazy like that.
I feel for you when it comes to the emotionality of it all. Myself and some of my comrades put our EVERYTHING into that struggle for close to 3 years, just for the department to dissolve just a couple months after the contract was ratified. I’m still kinda fucked up from how terrible and demoralizing it all was and I havent been at that job for nearly a year
I’ve seen UFCW hang a unit of thousands out to dry and get decertified because they decided it just “wasn’t strategic”.
The union rep I had lost the fucking COCA-COLA contract here; it probably would’ve been the biggest bargaining unit with the most dues paid for the whole local. Those workers decertified and were super bitter towards unions after. Why would they let that happen if they would get so much notoriety/money out of a unit?
UFCW structures itself with the bureaucratic old guard at the top who care more about loyalty than competence (they do still make a show of it internally but really and truly do not give a fuck) and does extraordinarily cynical math about cost:benefit ratios. A big new unit can actually threaten the power structure as new members expect representation, but it can be hard to tease out incompetence from cynical power hoarding from afar.
UFCW is up there for worst big union around.