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Originally Posted by
MrTickle
It's easy not to like unions when you're a poker player and have no experience of needing to use your union in a dispute with an employer.
I wasn't always a poker player. Remember, I'm 44 years old, so I had a work history at real jobs for a long time before becoming a poker player. This includes some real shit jobs as a teen where I got treated like crap and obtained a firsthand understanding of what low-wage workers go through.
This is why I am sympathetic to situations like this. Notice I am the one who posted this article and took the workers' side, which is hardly what you'd expect from a conservative Republican like me, right?
I just don't think that unions are the proper solution anymore, or if they are, they need to be highly reformed. Unions disproportionately benefit longtime ("senior") workers, and often drive wages to unreasonable and unsustainable levels for unskilled jobs. They also make it difficult to fire bad employees, especially if they have seniority.
I am also a product of the public school system (never attended a private school in my life), and watched some really awful teachers get away with being terrible simply because they had been teaching at the school since 1969. Why did these teachers have firing immunity? The union.
I don't want this to be a long debate about unions. We already had that in other threads here.
However, instead of making snarky comments about me being a poker player, take the time to understand that I actually give a shit when ordinary people are oppressed or screwed, as evidenced by the fact that I started this thread at all.