Fox News has a large hold on peopleIt is absolutely incredible to see how completely some people have bought into the anti-union propaganda around here. But hey, it's inspiring to see people willing to stand up and defend the wealthy and powerful.
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Apple Store in Oklahoma City Becomes Second in U.S. to Unionize
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Nice try but I can and have rebuilt engines.
Oddly enough I used to avoid brakes but recently started doing those myself too.
Ah, but you clearly don't darn your own socks or repair your own clothing. If you don't have the seamstress skills and tools to take care of your own clothing, if you just throw away your clothes when they get a hole or you pay a tailor to take care of them, then I don't think you're the kind of person any business would want working for them. The lack of initiative of not becoming an expert in absolutely everything is glaring and you would be a drag on the company, you'd let the company down, be more trouble than you're worth because you're not a superman who is an expert in everything not even related to what you do for the company.
Why do you think Apple would close the store?
Do you mean like Walmart, an enormously profitable company, who doesn't want stores to unionize so they will close it instead of paying people a better wage?
Illiberal economic tropes are propaganda handed out by neoliberal 'think tanks' and pundits who understand critical thinking and constructive problem solving has been intentionally conditioned out of a now intellectually lazy American populace under the guise of attacking the 'educated elites' and blaming the working poor for the decline in the middle class.
Unions have been instrumental in creating a strong middle-class in America and the economic elites have been tearing them down for their own gain for as long as they have existed.
I hate to break the bad news to you but you're about to have a lot of extra money you can't spend anywhere... Like at car dealerships, airlines, hospitals... There's a lot more but I really don't want to spoil the surprise.
They're not allowed to close a store with the sole purpose of shutting down a union. Read up on some labor laws. Unfortunately, stores often close unionized stores and blame it on other things, and no one typically asks questions. But this NLRB is more union friendly than usual and have been filing a lot more complaints than ones in the past.
The supreme court ruled on this in the 1960's.
"Under the 1965 Supreme Court case Textile Workers Union vs. Darlington Manufacturing, it is legal for companies to close their entire business even if doing so is a response to union activity."
The union Can tell the people whatever they want. They can’t force apple to give them anything.
Do you have any idea what benefits the employees currently have?
It seems some would rather support a trillion dollar corporation over workers.
Key words "entire business"
did you know the store management walk around with iPads and force the employees to take breaks?
Having worked in a store, I recall being physically dragged off the floor several times. Then they forced me to enroll in their benefit offerings. It was horrible.<sarcasm>
it was a fantastic job, decent pay fir the job abd the benefits were excellent
It makes you wonder if they would hold the same opinion if that (those) employee(s) was (were) their own son(s) or daughter(s)!
Bottom line is, if a majority of workers vote to unionize, I'm sure they have valid reasons. I've worked retail, there were a ton of reasons I would've wanted to unionize. Unfortunately, they played a training video that contained anti-union propaganda and it makes employees afraid to even suggest it.
I expect that the company will endure that they are not disadvantaged by not joining the union. Future benefits will be key factors, as well as qualifications of promotions, and EOY bonuses.
The cancer of our society is capitalism which else can overcome.
Man is greedy when it makes sense to be greedy. That’s why we need to built a society where greed and exploitation of others dies not make sense.
You’re right! Apple employees at the stores work in absolutely horrible horrid conditions! Have you seen the lighting in there? I don’t know how they put up with it. It’s too bad there aren’t other stores around that they can go to. They’re stuck and have no options. #prayforappleemployees
I'm not sure why you have gone down this path of comparing engine rebuilding and seamstress/tailoring expertise to negotiating for yourself in the workplace. No one claimed you must be an expert in everything.
What you can do, with little effort, little time and no tools is work on your self esteem and communication skills to be a better advocate for yourself and more effective in the workplace.
You stated yourself that:
So work on that. No one will argue on your behalf better than yourself. You could have way more to offer and be of much more value to your company than the rest of your team yet you are willing to settle for an average negotiated for the group?!?! That would infuriate me. You might perform really well but the rest of your team drags down your department and you want to settle for that versus having a meeting with your boss to discuss how great you are at your job?!?! Or perhaps you are the drag on your team and that is why you are just happy getting the negotiated average?
Then when someone tries to offer a way for you to work on your skills you dismiss them because you want to do something fun. This clearly shows all of us that you cannot be bothered to invest minimal time and effort to be a better advocate for yourself. I went on to say that if you are unwilling to stand up for yourself in the workplace then you probably won't stand up for your ideas in the workplace either and then you probably aren't a good candidate, at least in a team environment where collaboration is key.
Pretty simple stuff here but YMMV, if you are too intimidated or bored to be an advocate for yourself then don't ever complain you don't receive the compensation you feel you deserve. A union, at least in terms of compensation and benefits, is not an advocate for you, they are an advocate for themselves and then the collective, remember that. You are nothing to a union besides a source of income to support their power.
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Exactly. This decision is not an overnight thing. There is probably a piling of dissatisfactions and other issues building up to this decision. And clearly Apple's HR is not looking for a solution, but instead behaved like any other corporation in trying to create tension and division between employees by intentionalky giving certain benefits to non-union employees instead if looking at the core problem in what made the employees decided to unionize.
Something is definitely rotting inside Apple.
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