To give you an idea of just how badly workers want to form a union, we turned to the Teamsters Organizing department. They are deluged with requests for help. Here's a sample from taken from two days of communications from workers who want to organize. All comments are anonymous, of course, because companies will fire workers who breathe the word "union."
...we really need a union. i have seen mistreatment with some employees and we work extremely hard, and dont need to take mistreatment from upper managment. i have a co worker who has worked there for 14 years and just got a 2.5 percent raise after all those years of service. much more than that but we need a union and some organization.
I feel a strong majority of the employees would be happy to unionize. I have seen many examples of both corruption and mistreatment of employees.
We are under paid - no benefits - no paid holidays - we need a union to represent our situation...
Warehouse/ Drivers are tired of being over worked an unable to get needed time off for quote no one to cover...
The company is being ran backwards and workers rights are being stomped all over. Pretty sure a vote would go over on first ballot the way people are treated.
...an employee will be due in to work at 7:00 am and sometimes won't get off work until 10:00 pm or midnight. The very next day will be due back in at 7:00 am. There are more issues than this but I think over working someone who drives a truck that size is wrong...
...enough is enough my friends and I deserve to make a decent wage that is why I am asking for the union membership...
...and we desperately need union representation...In my last job we had no union and management took full advantage of it. Many weeks we had forced overtime, one year we had to work on Good Friday even though it was a paid company holiday, was promised Labor Day weekend off then they took it away from us. Fuck management!
No comments:
Post a Comment