Thread regarding Cigna layoffs

@6ofs+1s25mgLB'

Anchor days will be a great way to meet our current colleagues, make connections, and collaborate on ways to unionize.

Im currently WFH, but if that changes I will spent my Tuesdays and Wednesdays on union research and activism.

You're being replaced by foreigners with work visas.

But now Cigna is opening offices in India and Ireland, so they don't even need a visa.

So instead of unionizing, vote for leaders who restrict work visa and sending work overseas, instead of encouraging it.

I'd vote yes, if only to cause problems for senior leadership. It's too bad that they are forcing such an oppositional relationship with their workforce.

Let's do it!

Have you read You Deserve a Tech Union? Even if you're not in tech, it's a good read.

A union IS the workers. A union IS community.

So, here's the problem, I don't think you can build a community anonymously. But you also don't want to let management know until you have critical mass. Especially not who is organizing it.

That means asking people individually if they're interested. You and people who are very interested become the organizing committee. You figure out who's in your bargaining union. You make a list, and split it up, make a big spreadsheet, ask everyone if they support it. and see if you have enough. You technically only need 50%, but there will be a voter later on, and you'll lose support, so you really need 70-80% or more.

If you can get that, that's when you have people sign cards, and take it management. And either they say "yes, I recognize your union" or they force a vote. And spend millions campaigning against us.

The national and regional unions have people you can contact who can give you advice and support. So reach out to them!

While a union would put a stop to a lot of the worst ELT decisions, the work needed to make it happen isn’t worth it at a company that is already bad to work for. But if you want to add grey hairs to folks from Director level up, start leaving Union literature around the office and putting stickers in random places. They will FREAK the F out and lots of money will be wasted trying to make sure no union happens.

Why are they hiring contracts for 6 months to handle Medicare projects. They just layoffs full time employees in Medicare business just to turn around and hire technical project managers as contracts for 6 months. So stupid. This company’s management has no clue. Like people outside the company don’t know what’s going on. SMH

I’d normally rally behind the idea of unionizing, however this is not one of those cases. Don’t like the job or the company enough to see the point. That said, there are plenty of people who have been here for a while and claim how this used to be a great place to work. In my case, the job was awful from the start but I was too naive to understand at first. For those folks who are still here and have the passion to fight back, I surely hope they do.

For the rest of us, good luck on the job search and may we escape this hellish environment asap.

If someone has a different opinion than yours, they must be a bootlicker or a corporate drone? Really?

While they’re definitely not perfect, at least unions help adjust the balance of power. Otherwise workers have no rights and can just be pushed around -like we’re seeing at Cigna. What the UAW was able to do for its members recently was impressive.

It’s interesting to see some of the comments here. They either sound like management bootlickers or corporate plants on this site.

I’ll pass lol

@bmv+1s25mgLB

100% if push came to shove, you'd bi--h out.

I mean I think what people are feeling is no passion to do that. The company is rotting from the core. Creating a union takes a lot of energy and passion. I think we would all rather just move on to somewhere that appreciates us without a union. Anyways no one that has the skill, dedication, smarts, or man power to put a union into place is hanging around long enough to see it through. They’re smart enough to get in and get out.

Couple of pu----s or managers below. I’d 100% join - unions built the middle class and their decline coincides with wealth consolidation for the super rich as well as the unending quest for higher corporate profits.

I doubt if anyone has guts to join a union unfortunately. We don’t know what sort of lawsuits might follow . No one wants to mess with the governments ir big corporations.

Same as many companies and no thank you to the dues!!!!! I have worked in a union company before and no different. Just another deduction out of my pay.