Trade Unions

[Steezie]

I have a double question.

Part One: You are employed at a manufacturing plant. The plant manager and owners are not treating the employees well. Cheating people out of paychecks, cutting hours, verbal abuse of employees, and un-safe working conditions.

A group of your fellow employees have decided to band together and form a union to protect the workers. You'll have to pay dues but the union will help the workers fight for a better working environment. You cant quit, jobs with your skills are too scarce and you cant afford to go to school and you have no other means to sustain yourself or your family without that job.

You have been approached by a fellow employee and asked to join the union. What do you do?

Part Two: Assume you chose to join the union. You have found out about a fellow employee who is snitching on union activity to the management. Employees who support the union are being fired, harassed, or having hours cut. Now only YOU know who this person is, so what do you do with the information?

 

[CCGirl]

Well, I would be a Union Steward, of course. I would expect this employee to be turned in. No excuse for that type of behaviour and it endangers all of the workers.

 

[Bombila]

Part One: Join the union and help to setup fair and honest practices.

Part Two: Turn the snitch in, but do it properly. A new union, as you describe it, will most often have a Union Rep to advise the workers on how to organise and run a union. That person is the one you should tell about the snitch, and he or she will be able to explain the legalities involved and what can and should be done.

 

[peter22]

Most companies will screw their employees for every penny, given the chance. Unions exist to alleviate this. I personally think that everyone employed in a company should be in a union. As for part 2, the guy should be fired.