"Update: An Activision Blizzard spokesperson says that the company will not willingly recognize GWA Albany."
Gonna go down kicking and screaming instead of just doing better.
Gonna go down kicking and screaming instead of just doing better.
before the inks dried the company is going to throw every single thing they have at you to fight. youll get calls, youll get meetings, youll get your hours chopped stretched and moved all over the place. management will tell you what youre doing is illegal, that they can close the shop and walk away, that all your benefits will go away.
and in the end, youll take a 15k raise, pick up some nice new PPE, sit at the same table as management and ask them to recall why they said all these things that werent true while they tell you they do not comment on any prior business conducted outside of a union agreement.
our union ended mandatory overtime, slashed shift injuries, got healthier vending machines, and got health insurance for everyone.
As in less injuries from them or?
So yeah, so long as there's more options, rather than just completely changing everything to be "healthy", I think it's an improvement. Otherwise, someone gets the shaft.
Even if it removed the junk in favor of health food it's still the same amount of choice, now it's just the people who want junk that have to source it elsewhere instead of the people who want healthier options.
Many people will eat whatever snacks are available against their better judgment, and then regret it later. Having unhealthy snacks there and in people’s faces is a kind of psychological manipulation that takes some people nontrivial willpower to overcome.
If someone really wants candy bars, they can bring them from home.
And yeah if the vending machines were the primary reason behind unionizing... Probably an overreaction (then again I'm not going to tell someone else what should be important to them), but in this case it's literally the least of the benefits mentioned.
Why make healthy options the expensive one?
With perhaps the exception of health care, none of which seems relevant to white-collar office workers though.
And all your up and coming young techs you were hoping to train into more advanced positions leave to your competitors who can actually offer them a quick promotion and raise outside of the stupid seniority and job title based system the union got you and the workplace steadily inches toward "everyone does exactly their job and nothing more" type clock punching culture that makes everyone hate work.
Whether the tradeoffs are worth it is an argument I'm willing to have. but don't lie to us and act like there's no downsides.
Great! This is awesome. People shouldn't be doing work for free to the benefit of multibillion dollar companies.
Frankly I think it's moronic that people don't realize that just because something benefits the company doesn't mean it doesn't also benefit your coworkers.