Wrong, kids choose to work for Kroger. Kroger writes the paycheck not the freaking union. Kids are forced into the union if they want that summer job and get no benefit for their dues. That won't happen anymore in KY thanks to RTW. No more unions stealing from teens working summer jobs.
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Wrong, kids choose to work for Kroger. Kroger writes the paycheck not the freaking union. Kids are forced into the union if they want that summer job and get no benefit for their dues. That won't happen anymore in KY thanks to RTW. No more unions stealing from teens working summer jobs.
He chose to work for Kroger knowing it was a union job. Why did he do that? Is it because union jobs pay more? Is it because union jobs offer better benefits? Is it because union jobs have safer work areas? Of all the shelves to stock, he chose to be a union worker at kroger.
Hush your mouth, Rob knows all about unions. He met with some management at an auto plant.
You are wrong. The last thing he would have chosen would be in a union. The kid was 16 and he had no idea what unions were. He just wanted to make a little money to buy gas for his car and pay his insurance. But no he had to pay union dues. Why would Kroger even offer a union to a part time boy with no benefits if it was not mandatory. Thankfully where I live Kroger is no where to be seen. Publix would kill them anyway. No need to argue with you.
Oh so now you change your story. You admit it was required. My son wanted a part time job and Kroger was hiring. He quit as soon as he understood he was getting screwed by a union of no use to him and went to work for a pharmacy. Best move he made in his life because he never worked for a union again and that has been 30 years.
It wasn't the last thing he chose, it was the first thing he chose. Plenty of places for kids to make summer cash, he picked the wrong job. Don't blame that on kroger or the union. He made the wrong decision it sounds like.
Sawnee you can now tell us how your son was paying 20 dollars a month in dues so we can realize how stupid your story is.
I work in one of those union shops in Ind with 100% absolute certainty, the union does absolutely nothing for those not in the union. Nothing, all employee issues are handled between the company and employee. The only thing that is true, is the non-union and union employees receive the same pay and benefits package. This goes both ways as a nonunion employee can not receive a higher wage than the union employees regardless of merit.
I certainly will not argue with you the story is stupid. If fact Kroger's having a union is stupid. But it was a good lesson for the young man to learn at the age of 16.
When I was 16 I'd take any $20 I could get...paying it to a union would've pissed me off enough to quit quickly as well.
Generally, only the representatives of the unions in that workplace are involved in collective bargaining agreements. I'm not sure why the Teamsters would be involved unless there is an agreement between your plant and the truckers moving product. It would help to understand what type of plant you work at. Also what union covers the metal workers.
if you think kroger having a union is stupid, you've obviously never worked in a kroger warehouse.
Honestly I dont think enough people will sign the new contract. It will be close. Ill probably quit paying my dues and be a scab. My dues were a total of $1800 last year and I didnt get much for it in return. The non union plants make on average $2.00 more a hour than us. They also get 6% 401k match compared to our 3% and a 2% bonus on average.
Tammefan a free loader? That is no surprise.
Worked at Kroger in high school. 1995. Paid union dues, wish I had an old stub to see what it was back then. I do remember this. The dues were so little that I never even thought about it.
As far as benefits go, Kroger took care of the part time employees. Guaranteed a 15 minute break for a 4 hour shift, a 30 minute lunch if you worked more than 5 hours. Work 8 and you received another lunch. They never once tried to jack around and make you miss a break because they were busy.
I had friends that worked at Winn Dixie and hated it (no Union). Also no more Winn Dixies.
I grew up in a union household. Father worked at Rohm & Haas. Mom was a nurse.
Worked at Kroger in high school. 1995. Paid union dues, wish I had an old stub to see what it was back then. I do remember this. The dues were so little that I never even thought about it.
As far as benefits go, Kroger took care of the part time employees. Guaranteed a 15 minute break for a 4 hour shift, a 30 minute lunch if you worked more than 5 hours. Work 8 and you received another lunch. They never once tried to jack around and make you miss a break because they were busy.
I had friends that worked at Winn Dixie and hated it (no Union). Also no more Winn Dixies.
I grew up in a union household. Father worked at Rohm & Haas. Mom was a nurse.
I work at a manufacturing plant. Im not a skilled laborer. Some of the older workers have a pension that pays out $40 for every year you have worked. Im not a construction worker.
I worked at Winn Dixie in high school (roughly 1991-94). Guaranteed 15 minute break for every 4 hour shift worked, 30 minute lunch if you worked 5 or more. 8 hours equaled two 15 minute breaks and a lunch. Paid 10 cents more per hour starting out as a bagger than the local Kroger (which is why I took the job over Kroger), but that was probably different depending on the particular store. The one I worked for was brand new. Granted, it's gone now.
Just laughable....pure ignorance..
Your son gets mandated raises at regular intervals because of the union. He can go work at walmart if he doesn't like getting a bump in pay every year.
More clueless input.
Yes. Because kroger is the only employer that hires teenagers in kentucky...
He chose to join the union. How you people can't understand this is beyond me.
The irony in this argument shows the brainpower of union members.
What about all these plants that aren't union, that employees want to unionize? They knew it was a non union plant, so they chose non union. According to your logic they shouldn't be able to unionize because it was non union when they got there.
For the love of... You don't marry your job. Things change in business all the time. If you don't like those changes, leave. If you want to try to eliminate the union then do it. Just don't go crying to the government to make them do it.
The real irony in the posts like yours is that most people that want unions gone also claim that they want smaller government and less governmental involvement... Until they run into a problem they "can't handle on their own." Then they run to the nanny state to save them.
And I'm not a union member. Just someone with half a brain cell.
There's no such thing as a right to work. That's just ******** propaganda.
No. Because the state I lived in was RTW it all worked out for me. Knew a guy in the same company that left for a competitor thus violating his non-compete contract. He lived in a non-RTW state. He was sued as well and he wound up losing his house. Plus many of the filings, etc that my attorney filed during the case, referenced RTW. Many discussions in his office about RTW. Him telling me they couldn't win because we were a RTW state....yet you still worry. At least I did. Believe me, a time in my life I won't forget.
Wrong, he chose Kroger because it was the only job he could find that close enough to his house so he could walk there. He didn't even know it had a union when he applied. How are you so blind that you don't understand that your paycheck and your work orders come from the company? Thus you work for the company and not any union. Companies can exist without unions but unions can't exist without a company to leach off. Unions are just third parties that were given special treatment under the law. Fortunately, RTW reballances the scale somewhat. Private sector Unions are dinosaurs and are headed to extinction.
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Believe it or not since you are obviously not a union member.... there are not any evil union thugs at the local office who stand there with bats and brass knuckles intimidating you to vote a certain way.... I guess you've seen that in the movies and believe it to be true.... That's not how it works in real life.