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• K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If im getting union wages I can do both

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How much do your union busting consultants cost Delta?

  I bet it is a fuckload more than that.

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  • kubica@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @supersquirrel They could buy us even more games

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• Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is what literally popped into my head when I read the blatant anti-union propaganda.

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I swear to all the fucking gods, I’m contrarian enough that even if I were anti union, this shitty attempt at manipulation would make me jump on board.

  Like, fuck, don’t insult my fucking intelligence like that

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• mattyroses@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Prathas@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know craftsmen who could certainly build one for cheaper than that…

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    • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Everyone’s got a guillotine guy

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    • mattyroses@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      look man, I’ve tried those cheap Algerian knockoffs - most of the time, you’re lucky if you get 2 or 3 Marquees under the fucker before it starts warping, much less taking it onto the bourgeoise pigs and their fat necks.

      Don’t be fooled, you get what you pay for here.

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• agentTeiko@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its a shame no one puts a sticker that says Union dues are like an investment that will pay off in dividends way above 700

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  • stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Right? What kind of union isn’t benefiting their members to the tune of $700 a year? Especially one that’s charging those kinds of dues should well be able to.

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• starchylemming@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wait, i cannot tell if this is real. it’s to absurd to be real but it’s also american so i’m lost

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  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s sadly real. From a few years ago. www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-48225646

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• kat_angstrom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For whoever reported this as Anti-Union Propaganda, you are correct. However, this post has been approved because it’s blatantly awful as a piece of propaganda. Anyone who thinks that this post provides a convincing argument, please add your comment to the thread to promote discussion. :)

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• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Average annual salary is slightly less than $70k annually in the US. A union that gets you even a meager 3% raise annually is ~$2100 in increased income or 3x what your dues is.

  Bunch of fucking wankers.

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• GarboDog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ok but here’s the thing… you can regicide the price of the union with the company and hand the company pay for most of your union dues and realistically 700/year isn’t bad for job security, higher wages, better hours and better benefits aswell as various other things that not being in a union would be impossible. This union busting is madly illegal and really fucked up. Hate US companies

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  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regicide

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• smh@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  With the retroactive salary increase my union just got me, I could buy several gaming systems. [meme of dude tapping his head]

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  • Prathas@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Huh, it’s apparently called “Roll Safe”: knowyourmeme.com/memes/roll-safe

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You know who I trust to tell me how to live my life? Big faceless corporations. They obviously want what’s best for me more than they care about their bottom line.

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• kevinsky@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Big corporations actively campaigning against you doing something like this is always a pretty safe bet that the opposite of what they want is in your interest.

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• Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Coincidentally, unions might be the only things that could still save the AAA side of the games industry…

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  • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think the current AAA system should die. It’s brutal for the people making games and it’s completely unsustainable in the long run.

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    • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d expect more unionization to mechanically reduce games scope by increasing workers hourly compensation. And progressively remove authority from the MBA guys

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• Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Delta pilots are unionized. Wide body captains are making over $700k/year

  I can see why Delta doesn’t want the rest of their employees unionizing. I don’t see why they haven’t

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pilots make more money if they’re fatasses!? Where do I sign up!?

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• Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This looks illegal

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  • medem@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not in Gringoland, nope. Union-busting behaviour is routine there. Something that is well documented and studied.

    BTW: great username!

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  • makeshift0546@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Based on what 🤣 Jesus people 🤦‍♂️

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Based on good laws and regulations in countries where the freedoms of the people outweighs the freedoms of corporations.

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    • Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One could argue that by presenting factually wrong data about union benefits the employer is contradicting the following:

      It is unlawful for an employer to subject a worker to any detriment by any act or deliberate omission where the sole or main purpose is:

      •to prevent or deter them from taking part in the activities of an independent trade union at an appropriate time
      

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    • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Based on laws from other democratic countries who aren’t even particularly fond of unions as a whole, but still didn’t go full mask off capitalism.

      Fun task for you if you want to learn more about this : research why labor day is May 1st basically everywhere else in the world, but not in the US (and Canada).

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• morto@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t think. Don’t organize. Just consume.

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  • OS2Warp@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  $700 lol 😆…I wish . Try $4500/year and worth every penny. GO UNION!!!

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  • lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Union dues are tax deductible where I am, quick ddg says no in the US?

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    • TrippingBalls@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Work expenses are tax deductible… Union dues are work expenses… Same with safety equipment such as steel toe boots and FR clothing, uniforms etc

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Buy this thing so you don’t notice while we take advantage of you.”

  I’m honestly surprised they aren’t telling us to buy something Delta sells to complete the grift.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bread and circuses baby, bread and circuses

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not much for circuses, but I’d like to hear more about this “bread?”

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• Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure this falls under a railway labor act violation.

  And yes, workers in aviation get lumped under the railway labor act when it comes to unionizing.

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• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So $58.33 per month or like 3.65 McDonald’s double Bacon quarter pounder with cheese meals per month.

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  • iocase@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s roughly what I pay and I just got two retroactive 3% raises and a massive increase in my benefits thanks to my union. My employer wanted to cut people or freeze pay and the union made them back down in everything. We got everything we wanted and didn’t need to compromise… Worth every penny in union dues. I’ll have a cheque for a few thousands dollars mid July now.

    Unionize!

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    • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not all unions are good but not having a union is typically far worse.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My first job in high school was at a grocery store with a union and they did jack shit for me when I got fired for something out of my control. Almost a year later they called and told me they could get me my job back but I wouldn’t get back pay and I owed them X months of union dues. It soured my opinion on unions for years.

    Nowadays, I wish everyone would unionize.

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    • warbond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those were the sorts of stories I heard about unions when I was growing up. Want to clean up a mess? Sorry, union rules say you have to wait for another guy to get here to do it.

      I always felt like unions just got in the way of doing things logically or quickly, but I’m pretty sure those stories and comments were intended to do that. Nowadays I know better, and I agree with you: we need unions now more than ever.

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    • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Any governing body of any form needs attention, particularly ones that have the power to tax.

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• veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So what you’re saying, is that Delta employees are so stupid, that they fall for this shit?

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was going to say that it got a lot of negative attention.

    But seeing that Delta employees still aren’t fully unionized may mean you’re right.

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• architect@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They think gamers are fucking stupid. It’s too bad they are right.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Really just people in general, not gamers in particular.

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  • diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gamergate proved that they are indeed fucking stupid.

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• Tiral@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Uniona are kinda a strange duck. Employers hate them, but technically shouldn’t care because if they were in fact not trying to fuck you constantly then unions wouldn’t get people very far.

  On the other hand as a union worker myself, I’ve seen some of the laziest biggest pieces of shit not get fired because we’re union. So it isn’t sunshine and rainbows for either side.

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  • katzimir@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d rather some lazy fucker gets to live comfortably with a living wage like anyone else than some lazy rich fucktard gets to live super duper comfy while everyone else suffers. Theres always low performer for whatever reason (its rarely pure lazyness), a healthy society can carry them.

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  • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re focused on the wrong enemy.

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve seen some of the laziest biggest pieces of shit not get fired because we’re union.

    It doesnt need to be this way, but through corruption or other means this has happened.

    Like the room in NY with teachers that just sit in it all day because they cant be fired.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Free riders are a feature, not a bug. High unions make everything better for almost everyone. The only ones who benefit from union-busting are the ownership class, because ultimately they only work in a competitive market when the ownership isn’t hoarding more than their share.

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• InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think I pay 60€ per 3 months, so 240 per year, and I get a part of it back after submitting some form.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You also (probably) get regular raises and healthcare

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    • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, our country has wage indexation and healthcare.

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• DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I joined a union after a previous manager started coming after me (cos they were a bit power mad) and I could only sue them when they fired me thanks to the union resources. Otherwise, I would have had to leave fuming but powerless like everyone else had. Unions are totally worth it!

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• ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At ny last union job the dues were only around $250/year.

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• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just to be clear, a system is not on subscription.

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love how this (old) image feels like something out of dystopian fiction.

  I could see it on the wall in Half Life 2, or Deus Ex. Not Cyberpunk 2077 'cause they wouldn’t need it.

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