Comment on Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames?

• Quicky@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unions (in the UK at least) often provide financial support for striking workers so the money needs to come from somewhere.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Public unions allow people to opt out of dues. Up until a relatively recent SCOTUS decision (Janus), they still had to pay partial fees to cover things like collective bargaining since they are still part of the same bloc as the union employees. But some conservative morons whined about it being against their beliefs to have to give money to a union (despite their partial dues literally being separated from anything politically-related. It’s just for the things they continue to benefit from), and it went to the Supreme Court.

  They want to kill public unions altogether, and cutting off those partial dues means less money for collective bargaining, etc. So of course they ruled against the unions.

  So they can opt out completely now.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They want to kill (public) unions altogether

    I’m a school bus driver and we’re unionized (although that’s actually somewhat rare). My co-workers are mostly trumpers but also rabidly pro-union, at least pro-our union. They’re in a strange mental state where they think trump and the republicans are supporters of unions and it’s the democrats who are trying to break them. I’m sure even George Orwell is in his grave thinking “wait, I didn’t think people would really be like this.”

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The mental gymnastics are wild… If the people of West Virginia’s grandparents and great grandparents could see what that state has become, they’d be rolling in their graves.

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