Since October last year our contracts have been discussed between employer and union. Today we hear that there still is no progress and they are starting the blame game. Pointing fingers at each other while costs soar, employer makes much more profit than before. We are forced to join the union by our employer and it seems more like they are just an entity to which my employer can blame for stagnation.
I’m at a loss for where to go with this subject. I kept hitting dead ends, so starting in the more left leaning subs. This isn’t directly antiwork, but I think it has a tie, since almost 50% of employers use credit checks as part of background screening. Not to mention almost all rental housing utilizes credit scores to establish housing worthiness. Because I’ve already had this conversation in a circle with a few left leaning people already: I get the original intent was to stop redlining. But then again the argument that credit scores are meant to be completely demographically unbiased & based only on your personal responsibility/reliability hasn’t been valid for over 40 years. They may stop banks from denying loans directly based on race, but since it’s using class related data scores often end up having the same effect. The scoring models themselves seem heavily biased toward…
Not sure I can post that kind of stuff here. It's mostly retweet by screenshot and some (of which are great) articles. Just wondering what you think?
I'm wondering if anyone could share the kinds of things their union negotiated for them to inspire people who are unionizing, or going into negotiations soon, or those who are in a union and wanting to create some change.
I will be needing one day of remote work in a few months (on a Friday) for my new job. The difficulty is I also plan on calling in sick on the following Monday. Its very very likely that we will be back to being in person by then. What are some good excuses to request for just one day of remote work that sounds believable? (esp since I'll be calling out sick that Monday)
I only get one day off, and my schedule goes through what i call “schedule whiplash” where one day i do the morning shift and then The next day i do the afternoon shift and it goes back and forth and then will flip. I am so drained that on one of these shifts. I fell asleep on the toilet. Fuck this job. I just want a fucking consistent schedule.
My boyfriend’s timecard was supposed to be sent to his employer via email before 12 pm today. He sent it at 6 am. His employer responded that they didn’t receive it until 8 pm! Because it’s “late” he wont be paid until the next cycle. The kicker- the employer’s own email response seems to show they are replying to an email they received at 9 am their time (they’re 3 hours ahead of us). Is this proof enough that they’re lying? It seems super shady! Is anyone out there familiar enough with this kind of thing to help us out?
So I thought people should know that US Bank decided to bump the company minimum wage to 18/hr. Once the plan is implemented by summer time, everyone who is below that rate will be bumped up to that rate. Full disclosure that I will be experiencing a bump from this raise. And with my 10% shift differential I'll be up to basically 20/hr. I think this is a really good thing to do overall considering inflation but there are two issues I see with it. This pay bump essentially negates any raise that we got for last year. So if you got a 3 to 5% raise and that raise put your base pay rate still below 18, then it's basically like you didn't get a raise at all because someone walking in the door day 1 will be making that same amount. Even tho this doesn't effect me cause…