Antiwork

I’m located in Virginia, does anyone know what the best Unions are in Va? Google is all over the place. Can unions help salary people? Also all over the place on Google. I work for a very large company that has most of us angry all the time. Half our company is salary, another portion is hourly. I work 58-65 hours a week and I’m done. I want to quit but I do make decent amount of money. I’ve been applying for other jobs but would like a union in place before I go. Here’s where the good news lands! Im in a position where I have access to everyone’s phone number, email address, even home address. I can send everyone anonymous emails, messages safely without getting caught. I have also had a few below me reach out to their friends across the state to see if they’d Unionize. All…

Here in the south, the heat is infamous as we all know. I work in an automotive shop we work on tractors and just about anything with wheels. We work both outside and inside of this tin can of a shop. I asked during our meeting if management could have the decency of supplying cold water bottles for the shop. We can have them in a cooler accessible for us technicians. Or even a water fountain. My boss replied with a “that’s actually an OSHA violation and that’s why we can’t do that. I know, it’s crazy right? haha”. Personally What the fuck?

I was talking with my long retired cousin today and mentioned I just took a new job as an field engineer for a medical device company. I said I used to be a med tech but that the pay wasn't enough to barely live on. He told me the secret to making good money is longevity and sticking with a job. I told him that has never been true in my working experience, I'm 35 and have been working since I was 17. I explained to him that sticking with one job doesn't lead to good money when every year they give raises that are less than the rate of inflation no matter how well you preform. To which he blamed the democrats. Funny how that been going on my whole life no matter which party controls the government. Its almost like both are parties are just shilling for the…

Just wanted to poll the room. Anyobe have any experiences unionizing they would want to share? Was it successful? Any tips for those of us wanting to try? I have a friend who’s trying to unionize and right now he’s trying to get signatures to the NLRB. If he’s successful I might give it a shot at my workplace too. Any advice I should pass along?

I perform extremely difficult unpaid work (medical field ahem) every week for 40 hours, sometimes more, for $0 pay. My internship/clinical experience is 1.5 years long. I am more depressed, stressed, and burnt out than ever and don’t even get paid. How the hell is this legal?

Kudos to Spectrum, and about every isp I've ever used. They'll make your services unusable, so when you call with an issue they'll tell you that the service you've paid for and has worked perfectly fine for the entire year since they did it last time isn't enough so you have to pay for more. It's flagrant bs, and the exact same thing happens everywhere. Rent goes up, for no real reason. Gas prices skyrocket while gas companies are posting record breaking profits, while we have a record amount of oil permits, while we have a record surplus of oil /just sitting there/. Supposedly the government stepped in there, and got it lowered by a fraction of what it was raised. Just for it now skyrocket even further right before it's supposed to drop 30 cents. Price of housing is skyrocketing because corporations are buying it all up. Left and…

Over the last few months I’ve been asked by two different managers if I’m “happy working here”. To me, this is a very weird question and an odd ideology. I don’t go to work to be happy or find happiness, so no, I’m not happy working here! But that doesn’t mean I’m not showing up every day and going a good job. What’s the fixation about being happy at our jobs? (I understand we spend much of our lives at work, so why not be happy doing it…)