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But I am kind of curious as to how you feel that a union has taken advantage of workers? That isn’t to say you might not have a reasonable example for how they have, it’s just I can’t really think of a scenario where they could since they have to take their direction from their members who are the ones who decide which contracts they accept, job action and whether they want to be represented by that union. But if it is happening, despite what some might think I actually want unions that don’t do what they’re supposed to do to be held accountable by their members.
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Alright, I witnessed this from a few different points of view. Union came in, promised the workers all sorts of stuff that there was no way they were going to get, and was based on what the company was being paid to complete the work. Union came in, first contract came in, and the wages were way lower than what the union had promised, and no paid days off, either.
That union stumbled and bumbled and eventually got replaced by a bigger union. A union I was actually a member of previously, although a different local, and had good experiences with.
The seniority list was master, and also broken up into classifications. Let's say one of the classifications lost half their work to a different company. But the other half of hte work still existed, so people within that classification should have maintained that seniority. After 3 years, they got back the work they had lost. So those people who had remained with in the classification should have had rights to go back and work their previous posts. But the union leadership and the company both got together and decided that previous classification never existed. That it ended 3 years previously, when they lost, even though they maintained some of the work that was there. There was no memos or notices or votes from the union, and nothing from the company. They just decided that the classification never existed in that manner - not arguing that it changed when they lost the work, which would have been a legitimate argument - but that it never existed in that manner, even though I knew for a fact it did, and had seen the seniority lists, and in fact had been one of the ones working on the seniority lists. They just... ceased to exist. Just to screw over about 10 people who had high seniority.