I’m a Gen Xer, on my second career in a second unionized environment. I’ve worked both sides of the contract in one career, our union members supervise another unionized workforce, and I later became a manager there. In the other it’s strictly on the labour side. So I’ve seen up close, the shitty things management and labour do to each other while the customers finish up the trifecta in a 3 way knife fight.
All of that aside, no matter what, there were rules and any worker could, if not a lot else, expect to be treated fairly and equally by the company. The only difference is your seniority date when it’s time to crew.
So since my early 20s, I’ve basically never worked for, answered to, or been the voice of “the owner”. The owner in one job was is an ever shifting conglomerate and their shareholders, and the other job the owner is 🇨🇦. We have a Labour Code here that also obviously contributes to my astonishment reading about what these American folks have to deal with. Holy shit ..
So the reason I come here I suppose, is to have my eyes opened, and read these horror stories about assholes I never had to deal with, or even put up with for that matter. It’s just very sobering, because at work, I’ve obviously only been around people just like me, and probably a bunch of others who wouldn’t feel comfortable about sharing stories like these with a supervisor or boss.
Keep up the good fight, lots of people see your points, and not all companies can succeed. But good companies with good leadership should have an easier time succeeding..