Those strangers are either bots, idiots who bought the propaganda they are constantly fed, or people who are literally paid to keep labor unorganized.

Decades of business owners convincing guilible desperate poor people that unions ruin businesses will do that.

Bingo.

@@Praisethesunson The last one you mention (paid people) is happening all too often, unfortunately.

Unions are the reason we have two-day weekends and don't work 12-16 hour days by default. If they did not exist, workers would have even less.

Truer words were never spoken.🤣😅🤦‍♀️

And they protect you from some big problems

and extensions to your car repair insurance

HAHAHAHA vivid but accurate

Yep. Because the risk of protecting all the bad dicks out there far outweighs better and more pleasurable sex for the rest of us. Actually a great description for unions.

But they can get greedy. 😉

Solidarity. That's what they fear. If everyone had a union, and we see another industry or store not doing right, we could strike in Solidarity till they get what they need. That is the nightmare for employers.

Out of interest, what is it that unions do to raise worker wages?

@@norishimogawa6125 negotiate the contracts and terms of employment for the members. Put pressure on employers and if they have to strike. Though in recent years some unions are not run the way they should be. Unions also represent employees at meetings if needed, and any counseling..and represent them when issues of safety and health or going against terms of the contract happen. But again..some don't represent their members as well as they should. Smh.

@@SanFran51 Do you know of an example where unionized employees ended up worse off after collective negotiation? Because I don’t. Sometimes the gains aren’t as big as promised, yeah. And DEFINITELY some union reps are obnoxious. But the corporations are paying millions to make sure you doubt the very obvious truth: collective bargaining is better.

Plus, it perpetuates the negative stereotype that video games are childish / for children.

@@Wubsy96 Well, that video games are nothing more than escapist entertainment for all parties as opposed to made by people who worked their ass off, sometimes under less-than-ideal conditions. (And that’s the best case scenario.)

New episode maybe?

Activision-Blizzard is trying to unionize, solidarity to them

With Union wages, you could afford 3 or 4 Xboxes a year…and probably have better medical care.

Unions are only as good as the membership. If a person's union sucks, that's when you start participating in the process.

please describe your experience all over social media as often as you can. Americans need to hear this early and often. Unions are not taught about in history class at school anymore. please tell your story on social media as often as you can. thank you

What city?

I make $30hr as a concrete finisher in Colorado. Dollar raise every year until 2024.

@@dystopiaisutopia san francisco. Local 2

"Only In America".

well increase in wage cost wayyyyyy more just like some other thing; if they do it, it's not because it cost them the same/more ;)

@@namonamo494 First thing you said. Correct. Second thing you said. Wildly off. It's more about power than it is cost. Keeping workers weak and unorganized doesn't just save money. It keeps power entrenched in a small pool of already wealthy ghouls. Ghouls that actively don't want to be held to account by the rabble who make the money they claim for themselves. Companies will run themselves into bankruptcy than yield their ill gotten grasp of power. That's how a class war works

ikr. it's like they hate their workers. they'd rather make it worse for themselves then make it slightly better for workers. they are at war

@@potmki6601 A war between the working class and the ownership class. Sounds like a war of classes. A class war of some kind.

yup! now there's no reason for any one person to perform well, because they will never stand out as a person who deserves to make more than the rest of the team. Unions benefit the lazy fucks, and do nothing for the people who actually make a company run.

Guess what happened with it...

@@clayvision bro don't leave us hanging...

@@Thenoobestgirl so far i cant find anything negative about it

@@clayvision ...its thriving, that's what

The reason I suspect we Europeans are so lax with unions is because there was a *massive* fear from 1917 onwards in regards to a communist revolution if the unions weren't negotiated with.

@@joelthorstensson2772 thats actually a really good theory. boy oh boy i wish america was on the doorstep of a communist revolution now :(

@@joelthorstensson2772 you make unions sound like a bad thing

@@blackbird_entropy Believe me, I am *extremely* pro-union.

I mean, the United States is not a civilized country.

This is the kind of thinking that people don't seem to get. A union gives you negotiating power. It gives you the collective power of the labor force to earn its worth. It costs money to allow such a group to exist, but in virtually all instances these groups fight to earn wages and benefits far higher than their non-unionized counterparts. Speaks volumes if basic fees dissuade individuals.

@@Michael0697 Yes, apply this logic to any social democratic policy as well. If the increase in taxes you pay is less than your savings from healthcare, transportation, housing, & education, then you should vote for those policies!

@@Michael0697 Short sighted people that for some fucking reason can’t understand paying a small amount of money to get more money later on

While I agree that having a group to negotiate on your behalf is good, if I worked at a company that paid ~70% of the "industry standard", I'd probably have chosen to go to another company in that industry before waiting for years for the possibility of the status quo changing.

Like how universal healthcare wigout copays, premiums, etc., would actually LOWER most people's healthcare costs.

Icing on top, it cost like 1/hr to pay Union dues and you'll end up better for it.

It's not the money, It's worker's rights.

it’s all about consolidating power and honestly, let them do it, so they can turn around and say “why are most my workers quitting on a whim”

@@lisandroestevez-inoa2405 but theyre not going to quit. The few that do are easily replaced with someone else who needs a job.

I know this is off topic but is any one else bothered by an (any u word)? It just seems so weird even if it's correct.

That’s perfect

Are you sure about that, The US is the only country that i know where Union is popular among all worker yet in my country is frowned upon.

@@ALIGwedew62 In my country, Unions are required if you have more than a certain amount of employees.

@@CyberController- Well thats UR country not my country , here if you want lets say higher wages in the places that you worked the only way that it can happened its just wait for promotion from higher up.

@@ALIGwedew62 That sounds rough, you have my sympathies.

wHICH COUNTRY?

I am curious, assuming you have some knowledge. I started working night shift at a kroger almost 3 months ago. As of December ill be a full member of the union. I applied full time, work 40 hours minimum each week, when getting through orientation, paperwork and stuff they filed me as part time on some paper. But I've worked full time, haven't called off and even come in sometimes when they need a hand because schedules and management are kinda wack ive been told. I was told around the time of starting by a friend and family member that they are required to provide insurance and such if you work full time, while another told me that I was probably listed as part time to negate insurance. I myself don't know the rules in depth so any relevant info would be appreciated

@@UnderTheLuxury tell your shop steward and manager whats going on and wait to see if either group cares about retaining you. the norm these days is to fire people without cause while in a "probationary" period

@@UnderTheLuxury your friend and family member are right. If you're working full-time but legally listed as part-time, that is highly sketchy, and you should definitely talk to your union rep about it.

This!!!

I worked in The Sheet Metal Workers Union in 5 different states over the last 15 years. Best insurance I ever had. Worst bosses I've ever had too.

thats a damn hero story if ive ever seen one.

This is why Amazon can't make it here. That and Amazon drivers are paid like 50% of what local couriers make.

A very similar thing happened with Walmart in Germany - due to a mix of trying to engage in anti-competitive behaviour that was cracked down on by the courts, trying to force US-style customer relations training on their employees (which creeped out customers, because retail workers pretending to be your friend and smiling at you all the time is very strange to Germans), poor employee relations and trying to argue and fight with the unions constantly (where, in Germany, businesses and unions traditionally have very close relations, with unions being involved in most big decisions by the company), and basically not adapting to the German culture at all, they ended up making $1 billion in losses and had to pull out of the country.

WOW, what a powerful example of solidarity

Toys “R” Us also went bankrupt? so what was the point of that story?

Good luck bro.

@Hitesh. about an hour after I wrote that, Teamsters and UPS reached an agreement.

Teamsters working under the shipping industry are awesome. Could use stronger leadership in our grocery side though start making Kroger and safeway ect. start to sweat.

Hi bro. How did it go?

@WoodlandTrotter about an hour after I wrote that comment, UPS and Teamsters reached an agreement. Apparently holding out for as long as they did is still causing havoc on UPS's money because they just fired a whole lot of non union supervisors.

Don't you mean "un-American"?

@@jackcovey1832 No, he probably means American, as in “America is likely the only developed county where you can hear that". Therefore "American"e

I remember telling my boss I'm leaving my less then $10/hr job for a $16/hr job. The quitting process went from I'm giving you a week notice ( training was starting and I wasn't going to miss it) to I get a week break before starting a new job. They tried to talk to me( a legal adult ) like I was 15 just learning how jobs work "you need to put in 2 weeks so that its safe to come back. Everyone comes back and you can't if you don't put your two weeks in." They shut down less than a year later. Lot a people lost their retirement.

@@jackcovey1832 No, they definitely mean American. And they're right.

Is this the cool "please give me a like" comment people use in Last Week Tonight videos? It's in literally every one and y'all love to give them likes. I am not even American but I find the "America sucks, haha" comments very tiring.

LIUNA strong!!! 955 here.

Congratulations on landing with a GOOD union.

It also pushes costs higher for everyone else dummy! When your electric and gas costs go skyrocketing.... thank your unions that you love! And when you cant get a job because you will only work union jobs .... enjoy unemployment like all the other losers milking the system

Thank you for what you do!

@@jaycrabs420 don't blame the union workers ,,blame the corporation that pushes the cost onto consumers .

"We're a family" means "I expect you to put up with abuse and do shit for free"

"We’re like a family, a dynamic famously without intense power differentials and with no tendency toward drama!"

Because they want to perpetuate poverty as to maintain control.

Which is BS imo. Being an "astronaut" wouldn't make Jeff any less of an asshole. It just takes away from any regular person lucky enough to get the trip of a lifetime.

@@genegray9895 I mean... that lucky person could also haardly be called an astronaut

@@genegray9895 I mean, it makes sense. Astronaut comes from the words for "star" and "sailor", and you wouldn't call someone a sailor just for being on a boat.

That definition change is actually quite old, astronauts are by definition a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Even a lot of people that flew in the Shuttle missions of NASA weren't classified as astronauts but as "Payload specialists" which were the scientists conducting research in a low-gravity environment

dead weight

“I’d rather spend a fortune on law firms and consultants than give even a penny more to my employees.”

@@jonasdatlas4668 And they wonder why the younger generations are radicalizing.

And yet, people keep buying from his company.

@@jo-vf8jx convenience. Where else are you going to get thing X or Y? Busting up the company (which is effectively a monopoly) is probably the best option, and legislative solutions are far more effective than voting with your dollar.

The man could have literally started paying EVERY SINGLE ONE of his employee's $90 an hour more at the beginning of the pandemic and would still have made several billion dollars.

I'm forming a tenant union...

I think the union I worked under wasnt very good then. I think higher wages was all I saw out of them. I had a boss who cursed me out on a daily basis and multiple attempts to reach out to HR and the union bared no fruit. He ultimately managed to get me fired for being a minute late to clocking in. Not to long after, he got fired also.

Yeah seriously a union does a lot of good for the employer too. it's a channel between them and their employees which can reveal problems before they become real problems. Also a happy worker is a productive worker.

That s exactly why they Don t want workers to unionized.

Yes but the under intelligent capitalsits are in love with being poor and feeling bad for it

Mine offers dental and eye witch are both really good. I have dental work coming up in a few days that would be 3 grand without the insurance

So it seems your boss is right

@@landonharris3875 Aur tu bhi.

@@landonharris3875 it's the content that affects op and not staying up late, but since he stays up late to watch the content the boss is kinda right

Tohari Amma ko nachau.

Tell him to pay you more so you can afford HBO.

Yup. I got fired for reporting some harassment I was receiving. This is why I don't understand why so many blue states still have at-will employment. It's just a curtain of plausible deniability that companies hide behind to justify this BS.

I dated a head of HR for a large engineering company for three or four months and she told me every secret that she was told by employees. I was a contractor at that building and I knew everybody, it was so cringe.

This.

@@WobblesandBean “I don’t understand why so many blue states still have at-will employment.” It’s because Democrats as a whole still ultimately serve only corporations and the wealthy. They are a pro-capitalist party through and through. Even if not as brazen as the other side.

I dont know how HR workers live with themselves. Half their job is undermining fellow workers.

Lets get real: Unions are a compromise. The other end of that compromise not existing was when rich fat fuck factory owners got dragged out of their homes and beaten to death by the wageslaves they called employees. Americans seem to have forgotten that.

@Erwin Lii you have to realize who is saying it. Remember this is the land of the free capitalism, everyone has an agenda. This country was made with slavery and taking advantage of poor immigrants. Remember that when you here ppl advocating against unions.

@Erwin Lii Protecting employees from companies? Communism.

@Erwin Lii I never hear Americans calling Europeans Communists, honestly. I'm very proactive on contemporary politics, policies, and economics too

And yet I can't remember even one movie where unions portrayed as something good. There they all corrupt and work for mafia.

It's like you're drowning and instead of rescuing you, someone threw you a paddle and shouted "keep swimming!" before going home for dinner. That's what "living wage" is, only good enough so that you won't die, because that will make your employers look bad in the news.

@@adrielsebastian5216 they dont even care if we die. i watched someone get carted out of my warehouse and learned the next day he was actually crushed TO DEATH and we were forced to keep working. Noone got time off for it and the factory didnt shut down for the day. This is in the usa too.

And the fact that it does in the richest country in the world is extra sad.

Damn right!!

@@kayd9405 oh man so sorry for that

"But they could go down."

They could also go out to a football field and plant a literal tonne of sunflower seeds. Could does not equal will, does or even has any interest in doing so.

And as John pointed out, you'd want to say to them, "Wait, shouldn't you be for that then? You don't want me to join a union because...it would make you more money?"

well walmart did fail in germany i wonder why

Bruh... can't get any lower than MINIMUM wage smh 😂

Great😊

Union paid for lot's of the drugs

Most employers are anti-worker, this is just fighting back.

@@thekaxmax All. You want a higher wage, your employer wants you to have a lower wage. This is always the case. For that matter, the only alternative I know to gaining enough bargaining power to have a meaningful pay negotiation is to have the pay negotiation with multiple employers.

I would have told my dad FUCK EMPLOYERS. Good lord. I hate capitalism so, so, so much.

@@AnimeReference I agree. So being pro-employee necessitates being anti-employer basically? Because they are diametrically opposed ...

@@ptanyuh and what do you prefer?

Wtf.

I'd send the piss bottle directly to Jeff Bezos myself. Possibly by done...who can say?

@@casinodelonge no you wouldn’t lol because amazon has its employees by the balls. The only way to get back at them is unionizing now.

That's so shitty! My dad, rest his soul, taught us that being pro union is pro American! UNIONIZE!

And Amazon had their army of lawyers draft CYA letters for HR to send out to their workers saying it's NOT expected nor appropriate for the drivers and delivery personnel to expel and/or carry their own HUMAN WASTE around in their trucks. NOT KIDDING. So when Jeff Bezos does his drunken post space flight celebrations with fellow billionaires and multi-millionaires, remember that the Amazon package you're getting at your doorstep is likely traced with human waste from the hands of workers who don't have time to pee or cr@p in proper restroom!

Funny, I just posted above that in the UK I know people who work for Asda, part of Walmart. They have union reps in each store, a union noticeboard on the wall in the canteen, the union has meetings with the store manager etc.

​@@karlbassett8485wow. The country where everything outside London is as poor as Mississippi? (Yes. Look it up)

And Ronnie reagan thought trickle down economics would work

@@frankcollier5674 of course he didn’t think that, it was just a clever spin to trick the middle class and working poor to support the ultra rich’s agenda

"4 words...i'm glad Reagan dead" - Killer Mike

Most of today's problems can literally be traced back to Reagan. Wow 🙄

If it bothers communists, I'm willing to get paid less just to watch you writhe in discontent. Whatever makes commie wretches like you sad, makes me happy. Money well spent.

Guess you should have kept the immigrants out then lol 60% white country from the 88% you grew up in. No wonder Unions dont exist. Dont want to work? Here is Juan to take over for half the price and no benefits.

@@MartinMartin-bh4ke Blaming immigration is pretty close to racist and wrong. They should be in unions also. Collective bargaining can help everyone. Demographics change. It how you grow.

@@KamKing19 "blaming immigration is racist" haha it is racist cause ya know you are keeping an ethnic group from doing something Are you just a woman or lack any sense of logic?

@@KamKing19 "demographics change" No lol the Arabs nullified (literally) their black slaves and prevented this from happening. Any Empire that diversified was destroyed because of it You are allowing yourself to be divided and conquered and you are too selfish to care.

@@MartinMartin-bh4ke They are typically destroyed by those in power or catastrophic events. Excess tends to do it.

@Gebby sex workers should unionize so they can slap creepy guys like me

We called that "Late-stage capitalism"

It’s not capitalism.

@@Malcadon It is just capitalism

@@VictorMartinez-zf6dt It is capitalism

Americans seem to often vote Against their own best interests.

which in itself is so bizarre?!

@@zarakikon6352 It's the result of a lot of brain-washing and defunding education.

Unless you're being treated by Doctors without borders, Nobody anywhere gets free health care. Rather it's paid for by taxes or it's paid for by the person receiving care some how.

Exactly

if no one’s said it to you already: i’m proud of you for not having your father’s takes 👏 from having experience with a capitalistic family member it can be tough to not only convey the error of their ways to them, but also avoid getting lost in their ideology especially being a parent. props to you my friend 🙌

@@crabby_abby agh, thanks a lot for that. I really needed to hear it right now, we literally just had a whole argument about how he “has the right” to use slurs like the n-word, the r-word, tr**ny, fa***t, etc. It’s just so fucking frustrating!

I don't know what the R word is lol! But I am now in my sixties and realize everything my father said was racist and backwards. Except when it came to WWII. He watched every Hitler show on history channel. I now find myself watching WWII documentaries slot as so much pertains today. Other than that, I find myself thinking back to his statements and think WOW! And my parents were subtle, never using those words but was outraged when a black family moved in a neighborhood that was on our way to church. My sister who is gay but never announced it had a time of it but they eventually accepted it.

So why does daddy hate unions?

@@NoHomerS he’s a capitalist

Look up Studebaker.

They want to control people as much as possible. America loves a slave.

Something something Big Macs cost ~$0.30 more in Denmark.

The companies would not make slightly less as increases would generally be passed on to consumers.

"... they'd... make...less profit." Cue the corporate wailing and gnashing of teeth

Thank you for this. I will forever refer to him as payload Jeff Bezos

Wasn’t it just suborbital as well? He didn’t actually go into true space? Yea, he just hit the line, he didn’t even go into actual space. Purely suborbital.

@@widdershins5383 Space is often thought to begin from 100km above the ground. It's arbitrary though. Some don't think even ISS is 'truly' in space at it's 400km height. And that's where most of the astronauts visit. If Earth's gravity is used to define space, I don't think even Moon is in the space. Since, you know, Moon goes around the Earth. Similar aguments could be made about our Solar system (Sun's gravity well). I would vote for space and payload in this case.

@@LukeSumIpsePatremTe it is generally agreed that 100km is the beginning of actual space and is what is used for aerospace accords. And the moon is definitely in space because it takes us 3-4 days to get there. It’s also 380,000 km from us. That definitely counts as true space no matter who your talking to. So the little bald wanna be lex Luther barely hit the acceptable line for space. Kinda like how he only hits the minimum wage for his employees.

The word "Pay" and "Jeff Bezos" do not belong in the same sentence. The guy doesn't pay anything.

Which company was this?

@@WoodlandTrotter Cineplex

This is the comment I was searching for. The thought of being hunted by other humans really distracted me from the point of the video. It put some of my complaints and concerns into perspective. "At least I'm not being hunted!"

@@Jamesthemerciless ...yet

Not to mention the range being far shorter.

Arrows also have a much further range.

yeah arrows are also more cost effective and have better rate of fire

It's because they're sold the lie that with effort and "pulling up wour bootstraps" you can be the person in power so it will be convinient for them to have things to be shitty for everyone else (including them atm and realistically forever)

Same in Spain. In fact legally your contract must be tied up to one labor contract. It can be sectorial (metalworkers, waiters) that is negociated on a state level; or it can be particular for the company. Unions negociate them and on each company negociate which one is applied.

"Protecting its own people since the world wars". Joking aside, you and many european countries only have that because you have laws that actually back that up, here in the USA, no actual real tough laws are in place for that. In fact, if workers say they want a union, a company can literally just ignore it.

If you think that’s screwed up, wait til you look at our healthcare “system”

And in bigger German companies you have 'Mitbestimmung', I. e. Board Representation by Union Representatives

Same posters are in WalMarts. And therefore, Sam's Club, Neighborhood Market, Express, and Murphy's Oil. All subsidiaries of WalMart. It is also mentioned in the training videos of Walgreens, but made less visible.

Unfortunately shutting down slightly unprofitable stores is a part of the dollar general business model so the 'shut down the store' threat is more real possibility for their employees 😔

@@twotrackjack2260 no wonder they stay closing EVERYWHERE and EVERYDAY only to spring up somewhere else 🙄

Walmart does the same. I worked in direct care residential homes. We had UAW call them in and rally outside of work

Dollar general is the only store around where I live besides pharmacies and liquor stores, even though it takes up to a month to restock shelves they retain their customers as it's the closest store to 3 senior buildings

Damn, I didn't know that Germany had it together like that. Nice 1 😊👍.

At least if the employees want that. If just a single person says: "I think I want that and I am going to start the election process" that person is basically not able to get fired. There are plenty of companies without such a committee (mine included) and we are often joking that the employer will fire everybody who thinks about founding one. But these jokes are on such an absurd level, it is like saying: "I am not going to visit Australia, since I will get dizzy from being upside down the whole time." But yeah, that being a thing in the USA isn't surprising at all.

Can I relocate to Germany? I'm not kidding. America just gets worse and worse. Heavy sigh. ;(

@@teresathayn5170 sure, most of us are fine with economic refugees...

@@teresathayn5170 Sure, although there's still much going wrong here i think it's better that the state of the US right mow

Ha, feeding the peasants. Imagine that.

It could, but wages tend to be the highest cost of most businesses, so the cost of union busting is usually a tiny fraction of long term "losses" from unions.

In an ideal world that would happen but not in our world.

Yeah that's the thing in most of these cases it probably not that more expensive just to let the workers unionize and then you also get better employee employer relations as a consequence.

@@flewkisdead And yet companies in countries where 90% of people are unionized don't have any problems competing.

As someone else pointed out that fee also typically includes health insurance which is probly a large chunk of the fees.

This is why our educational system sucks. If people are stupid, they are easy to manipulate.

Gotta love At-Will states….

union-busting plant: "but they can go down" lolz

That part 🤣🤣🤣

its a crying shame that people have to work around the clock all days of the week, should be illegal unless its a serious safety issue to do otherwise. If the company is short on workers, not my fucking problem if the management is so trash and short sighted they cant fathom a bottleneck appearing. Its also the disgusting thing that usually they will go out of their way to fight former employees legaly, banking on the fact that they give up. I was so happy when companies and right wingers where whining that buisness couldnt find workers to hire, its called labor market for a reason bitches, if the conditions are trash why should someone work at your company? Also its a crying shame that workers got no solidarity, if i saw a coworker treated like that, would walk out of there, if everybody realized that they can do that and really grab the management by the balls, it would be a game changer. But in "i dont wanna pay for sick people america" everyone is on his own.

@@saltking2715 It is illegal. At least according to our labor laws. However, enforcing those laws is almost impossible as people desperately need work to pay bills and survive.

@@justadad6677 i amnot that knowledgeable about labor laws, but when my girlfriend told me that on of her employers factory plants was notorius for for working 24/7 cause the management said people are too slow there. She also said that its in your contract to do overtime if needed, which seems like a blank check for any amount of work you want your workers to do.

@@justadad6677 Then why pass a law you can not enforce? It is like making a promise you can't keep, because keeping that promise would encourage lots of people to get out of work, whether they are quitting, get laid off, or do something bad because they want to get fired for it. If only there was some way we could encourage people to NOT work around the clock all days of the week so they can protest better hourly wages from their bosses.

@@adamkalb1 Oh they can enforce it. If they wanted to. But this is just one of the many reasons we say the system is broken. It works for the rich, it punish the poor.

The quality is so much better. I have lived in a union built apartment for twelve years. It hasn't needed a single repair.

My husband is in the carpenters union, we have really good health coverage.

And if you happen to lose your old job most Unions will actually help you find a new job rather than leave you out on your own to search for another. How most people do not know this is INSANE!! And even scary.

I wish all unions were this great!! Sadly some are absolute trash and corrupt as hell.

But they could go down

tell me about it, had someone who was bitching once even AFTER the union helped him to not be treated like shit, after i told him "you know medical benefits and dental? yea get off it then since you bitch about it... enjoy working while pissing in bottles bud. no breaks for you." he for some reason didnt want to know me no more, along with got more miserable in his job lol

Ive been trying for years to get people to talk about ukraine. You dont care Mr.Oliver you wait for shit to get bad. Ishould kill myself. NONE OF YOU CARE

@@pvtjhon What the hell are you talking about?

@@darylovaltine I suspect it is a type of drug he is eating.

Yeah, and? Going from $20/hour to $35/hour /after dues/ is still a big fucking upgrade.

IBEW worker, and your not completely wrong, just forget that a lot of union heads are only interested becoming that 2%

@@jeremiahdavis360 Everyone wants to be a billionaire.

@@ashiiep0p not everyone. And not everyone sits and cries about the plight of the working man, while taking money from them to become said billionaire

@@jeremiahdavis360 but union heads are directly answerable to union members because they are voted for right? Union heads are not staying in there for long if they are not delivering the benefits to the union members. You would get voted out. You are using a strawman argument against union heads. And besides how do you know they are interested in becoming 2 percenters? YOu have research data on that or you just pulled that idea out of your ass.

@@jeremiahdavis360 Retired IBEW journeyman here, and I have no problem with the BA's and those at levels above them making more than the rank and file. Why? Because I worked non-union for 15 years before I crossed over, and when I did my earnings went up 80% and I started paying into a pension that was actually meaningful. I was able to retire at age 61. If not for the union, I'd likely have had to work until I was 70, and I'd have had a lot less to show for it. God bless the people who secured those wages and benefits for me.

Oh man right to work laws are so f-ed up

I'll make that video.

Define living wage

@@ronniehopper2726 Enough to live in an apartment with enough money to pay for rent, utilities, food, and some equipment like cooking pans, and an additional thing occasionally, like an electronic device.

@@userlog2474 so Mickey D's if you lived in a red state.

@@ronniehopper2726 Probably.

@@ronniehopper2726 nah. Red states have VERY low minimum wages. All states do. $7.25/hr for Mickey Ds is not enough for rent, food, utilities, or any electronic device.

The Michael Shannon school of acting

Heh. I find it rather annoying to hear the argument about helping customers outside of your department. It’s never happened for me at Walmart.

The company doesn't fire the anti union employees who are worse workers I bet. That's how I would win a court case against them as a fired pro union ex employee. They're cherry picking who they want to fire.

You forgot about the condescending smirk.

@@dannydaw59 Yeah, but those lawsuits take a lot of time and in the end, if there is a settlement, it is going to be far less than the "losses" from unionizing. There's pretty much no downside to retaliating against unionizing when you look at it objectively. Would need much harsher laws and enforcement for there to be a difference.

@Gebby this is probably a AI generated message from Jeffs company there's no way sexy workers are this committed to each comment in this video!!!!!

@@flewkisdead you know... stuff like anti-trust laws that were being hollowed out over 5 decades....

Yes, because the first thing I do with the chamber pot in the truck is flip it up to spill all over me, while shining a light in the bottom to read any text on the inside. No, put it on the outside of the pot. "If you had the kind of asshole union that only exists in movies, your bathroom breaks would be inconveniently scheduled." Seems like not very good text to me.

Write it on a folded piece of paper that you need to pull out of the bottle in order to use.

Why are the employees not allowed to use bathrooms? Would it be the end of Amazon's bottom line to lose even a little work time to bathrooms? Boo! 😡

Lol

@@adamkalb1 I guarantee you always go for two day shipping when available.

Well said and you remind us politely that's it's on us to accept to eat shit. I'm less polite .

Well said! A union's purpose is to protect the individual worker with the power of solidarity. If your boss is trying to bully you out of your job, if you are part of a union, the union could stick up for you. That lady who had to do the work of two people, if she was unionized they couldn't pull that stunt on her! If your boss threatens to close shop, your union could empower you to call their bluff, or even reverse the scenario and threaten to withhold labor. There is strength in numbers! That's people power! That's why it's in your bosses' interest to atomize labor: To disable worker solidarity; to make a worker negotiate alone; to make the worker replaceable. It is in your interest as a worker to unionize labor: To enable solidarity; to negotiate as part of a group; to make yourself less replaceable.

Precisely...Coming from NJ we are raised to understand. We watched our mothers and fathers walk the picket line every 2 years. Dad for the natural gas co employees and mom as a supporter of him and the union. Every other Christmas was a strike Christmas. Rough for us at the moment but after it was over, they got what they needed for 2 more years. I didn't get upset as a kid, we would make up for it after the contracts were signed.

@@tempesttree8839 Sounds like you never volunteered for the bargaining committee, you should try it sometime

В CCCP рабочие доказали, что они могут жить без богачей. Но заметьте, ни один богач не доказал, что он может жить без рабочих...

dude, when i started my store we were in-between store directors and for months it was glorious. our hr took over and got shit done. when we got our new director our awesome hr left right away, and it all became a hellhole.

All of that is why we need to transform our businesses into worker cooperatives. Democratic ownership of business. No bosses. We know what needs to be done, we call the shots and we reap the rewards. A system of the workers, by the workers and for the workers.

As a customer who enjoys buying things and services, it is also nice to go to a store where the employees aren't obviously fake-smiling through misery. Helps me feel like a real guest instead of a prison tourist.

its 100% intentional. the education system is the way it is to make you into a "productive member of society" aka. a obedient worker.

@@PingMe23 hell yeah. Someone said it. 🙌🙌

I'll take "Thingsh that nevah happened" for shiksh hundred, Aleksh. Jusht like I took your mothah lasht night. Obviously you read someone else's article about it, and just as obviously you read some union website's highly fictionalized account. In the real strike, the price of coal nosedived, and (thanks mostly to the unions bleeding it dry) Pittston was suffering even in comparison to other coal mines, dropping from the 7th biggest to the 15th. In 1987 they established a health and retirement contract with the UMWA, and as they continued losing money they doubled health deductibles and lowered coverage. They didn't quit paying anybody's pension. In April of 1989, UMWA's president Richard Trumka, who was already famous for his violence, declared a strike. Pittston hired non-extortionist workers, and the union members attacked them. Absolutely zero people were arrested for protesting peacefully--the claim that they were is a flat lie and you should be ashamed of yourself. However, about 4,000 people were arrested for destroying property--including puncturing tires and smashing windows of trucks while people were driving them, planting carbombs, and eventually just shooting at people. The court case in which fines were levied against UMWA--partly for blocking roads and other acts, but mostly for the violence--was overseen by Russel County Circuit Court judge Donald A. McGlothlin, Jr. Pittston, on the other hand, was a corporation with several holdings in multiple states. In short, your entire diatribe is a steaming pile from start to finish. And, of course, the unions eventually killed Pittston Coal. They ended up selling all their plants to a non-extorted company. (Later, in the Peabody Coal strike, one of those non-extortionist workers was murdered. The union president, Trumka, declared "I'm saying if you strike a match and you put your finger in it, you're likely to get burned.")

Dont worry, it's just a shit show

Is Belgium hiring?

Says someone from the chocolate gulag

Our government is paid to be anti-union by all these giant companies. Legalized bribes are great.

It's not funny haha or funny "that's strange". There has been a concerted effort to destroy union jobs, a PR campaign to malign them to the average working class American and union politics have turned a lot of people off of participation.

It’s really hard to work as an autistic worker so I’m glad he was able to get his workplace in a union, I hope I could get mine in one too

Can confirm. Also autistic and work as a unionized cleaner for a hospital. I feel much more relaxed and have no fears of being suddenly fired for simply being Autistic. It has done wonders for my mental health to not fear every day

"My husband is autistic" So there's hope

@@somebonehead well, we're both autistic but mine is fairly newly discovered

@Gilles of Fontaines Unions, Work, and Food-Shortages were all covered by 'Some More News', but enough, lemme stop recommending a specific Channel and recommend instead a whole 'kind' of Channel: The Atheist-Channel, which tries to counter Extremism, Radicalization, Trumpism, all this and more. Holy Koolaid and Telltale Atheist for example, wanna work with all of us together to tackle Problems. Just like Second-Thought.

everyone who works can benefit from working together with others in their same position for their shared interests. this is true for literally all things people do, not just what you do for work.

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Absolutely, but I'm happy being Non Union.

@@alme4561 as long as you're not being anti-union, im happy for ya

How bad of a writer must you be to need a union ? Most online articles are flawed enough to believe they are translations.

Yeah, I was kind of surprised they missed an opportunity to talk about the horrific working hours in the video game industry, actually. (Specifically thinking of the articles that came out about Rockstar and Red Dead Redemption, but I'm sure it isn't limited to Rockstar...)

I was laid off after 10 years of helping make games and building up a studio. A lot of older workers who were with the company since the start went as well. With trade schools and their game programs churning out fresh kids to flood the work market, a one trick pony like me was easy to shed and fill with someone new and cheaper. Maybe with a union I'd still have a job and would have been trained for where they needed me. But nope.

I'm not convinced game designing needs an union. Just become a entrepreneur yourself and say to the boss your own business has to run as well. If enough people are going to do this, wages have to go up. Indeed, I can imagine bosses are abusing the fact the majority of people in IT are autists (and generally speaking, autists have scheduling issues), but the wages are high enough to hire a secretary to assist you with time scheduling. ;)

@@pallascarter3109 Oh you haven't heard the Sexism in Blizzard and Ubisoft....

@@hendrikdependrik1891 Wow. You haven't a clue.

*Cries in New England*

@@loafobread9414 lol cries in MS! Btw, I’d love to visit the New England area one day. I bet fall is just gorgeous up there. And while I jest about crying living in MS, I always tell myself that it could be worse.

Governments in Europe FORCE you to have free universal healthcare, which sounds like oppression to me. I'd much rather have the choice to have incredibly limited healthcare that costs money unless it's through my job in which case I get whatever limited healthcare they charge me for. Edit - Is sarcasm please don't hate me

@@SBRS47 i mean it's better than having to pay a fortune on a broken arm or leg, and I would know that my tax payers money gets used to pay for my medical expenses than it being used to fund an overbloated military that is already powerful enough

Unions destroyed the British Motor industry. The Bríts were too lazy to work and maintain quality which killed off many British car companies.

yep got to protect those drunk union members who ran into my daughter's care...

i like how the protect a drunk forklift driver

@@timothypricesr5953 we got a union buster here! Caught red handed.

@@timothypricesr5953 being in a union does not equal drunk driving. I'm sorry for your loss, but this will not ease your pain.

Unions are fine. NO ONE SHOULDF BE FORCED TO JOIN ONE. No business should be forced to have one. The biz that people are willing to work at will survive and the one that can not hire ppl will fold. And don't give me that safety shit. OSHA rules apply to Union and NON-Union shops. If you are in a different country that is your own affair. Not America's.

Arrogance and propaganda.

Both are struggling due to labor shortages for their regular employees. The drivers are the only ones getting good offers.

@@kingzach74 True, but FedEx is definitely struggling more than UPS.

As someone who has a Fedex package stuck in a warehouse, I can definitely atest to this

It is because they pay workers more so they have more workers period. They have a union so they pay workers more, but that is beside the point. If FedEx paid more they would have more workers.

UPS also rewards employees with incentives with low catches and trains its spotters to attain clds and pipeline to teamsters drivers

I didn't know that the homelessness problem was so directly connected with Reagans union busting. It makes me wonder how things would have been if Reagan didn't come to power.

@@AlexBermann Reagan’s administration was so much worse than you realise. So many severely mentally unwell or handicapped people were kicked out of their care facilities without being able to provide for themselves, leading to much of the modern homelessness crisis. Unions stood up to that bullshit

@Vasil Rafti Times haven’t changed at all punk. Corporate owners without unions and regulations will abuse that freedom to the point of collapsing.

@Vasil Rafti Geez. Youre so wrong. So wrong. Stop assuming.

@@JS-tl7jp Do you know about a documentary or something about it? I got the feeling that it it could help me understand better how some things re the way they are in the US