I can hardly believe it, but I think we're actually starting to see a cultural shift around unions and the connotations of the word "union". I think it's kind of happening as a snapback effect against Amazon, but I think unions are starting to make headway against 50 years of being vilified.

  • Ithorian [comrade/them, null/void]
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    3 years ago

    I was raised in a fairly anti-union house and my first experience with unions was shit. I was forced to pay dues at an almost minimum wage job but got absolutely no help with any of the bullshit my coworkers or I went through. It took me years to start looking at unions as a good thing. My last job had a very strong union and it was awesome, wages were good and every time the management tried to implement new bullshit the union always pushed back and normally won. I don't think I would ever work a non union job again. I'm really glad to see the general public start to embrace them again.

      • Ithorian [comrade/them, null/void]
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        3 years ago

        Seems like anyone who was raised in a trade family is pretty supportive of unions no matter their politics, but particularly if you're an old millennial and had a right wing family the hatred is rather visceral. Gen Z seems to be far less indoctrinated against them.