Antiwork

This is in California. Other details changed for anonymity. My friend “Gary” got a job last year working at an office doing logistics. His offer letter stated his title, his salary of $20/hr, “health benefits” (verbatim), no PTO, and a start date. All of last year he got paid with a company business check (the type they use to purchase business items or pay bills on behalf of the company). He didn’t get a wage statement, no taxes taken and the health benefits he was offered were never given. When he brought it up to his employer, they stated it was coming soon, but it never came. This year he gets a 1099 instead of a W-2. His job entails doing the core responsibilities for the company. Including logistics, inventory, and customer service. Gary is upset because he feels he was swindled into being classified as a contractor instead of…

To unionize or not? Throwaway account with vague details, because. Working for a previously private company with a base salary and non-discretionary bonus/incentive plan with the option to work as much/little OT as desired. It made the average income vary pretty greatly from maybe 100k-200k. Company bought out by Big Evil Public company – has gotten rid of bonus/incentives without officially telling us, effectively cutting everyone's income down to about 45k (but stringing us along not telling us they for sure are gone – just asking us to be patient…. for the past4+ months). (also made health insurance worse, with only high deductible plans, less PTO, etc). Union formation is happening – but I'm not sure if the risk (are there risks?) is worth the benefit. How likely can the union negotiate salaries anywhere close to what we were making? I'm assuming there's no way they can negotiate to get…

Hi guys, A job i interviewed for wants to call on Tuesday to discuss pay. I looked through this sub for a comprehensive list of things to keep in mind/research/etc. ahead of time but didn't find one. I know to the goal is to get them to give a number first but how do you do that? I made a note of the breadth of skills I'm expected to have while in the interview as well. Any tips?

So I'm Scottish and my company is multinational, so I work with a number of people from North America and specifically from the U.S. Occasionally the topic of healthcare comes up (some of them live over here, some other places in Europe, some are still stateside), and to be perfectly honest, I sometimes feel nervous to ask for even the most basic (potentially traumatising) clarifications of my U.S. colleagues and friends when they tell me the latest thing they've been through. It just does not come intuitively to me. For instance, I cannot wrap my head around co-pays – they pay for insurance every month, that's the thing that comes out of their paycheque in the same way our taxes come out of ours, that's the equivalency I've seen drawn by people defending private healthcare (and usually disparaging ours in turn by highlighting our mind-blowing tax rates or whatever). Surely…