as someone who worked with unions, if you're good and have seniority its great...for the other 80% its shitty because the good workers can't get the hours and the ones who get the hours suck
Srsly. All we have to do is be real real good and hard workers. Then the people who take our wages out of their own pockets will do the right thing by us.
Are you frigging 12?
World had this system once. Called it feudalism.
The fundamental error here is letting them make us argue that the sky IS blue on a sunny day.
werd. fuck union mandates and prevailing wages. most sub contractors are barely getting by with insanely low margins. they can't afford those rates while still having a competitively priced product.
union elevator operator working on a saturday? that poor guy deserves $75/hour for sure.
This. Unions have a place in certain industries, but for the most part their time has come and gone. We don't need a fucking grocery baggers union, and a union for doormen, or a union for the guy who brews your coffee in the morning.