More people need to start talking about unions at their clubs and considering them. They can’t shut down every building. Corporate always talks about we don’t need them but we have no say in anything. They say we have an open door but every time we try to talk to the market manager do they really make time for you?
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to the person that quit a union job to work here. you are a d-mba$$ the union protections job security alone is worth it not to mention the pension i’m 58 and retired have fun working till your 90 for pennies
Unions are a cancer. It's why I quit UPS. I don't need some fat oxygen thief speaking on my behalf. They are thieves.
Contact your local office of the UFCW. They should help you organize. Now is the time with the labor shortage cuz they need us more than we need them.
National Labor
Relations Board
Your Rights during Union Organizing
You have the right to form, join or assist a union.
You have the right to organize a union to negotiate with your employer over your terms and conditions of employment. This includes your right to distribute union literature, wear union buttons t-shirts, or other insignia (except in unusual "special circumstances"), solicit coworkers to sign union authorization cards, and discuss the union with coworkers. Supervisors and managers cannot spy on you (or make it appear that they are doing so), coercively question you, threaten you or bribe you regarding your union activity or the union activities of your co-workers. You can't be fired, disciplined, demoted, or penalized in any way for engaging in these activities.
Working time is for work, so your employer may maintain and enforce non-discriminatory rules limiting solicitation and distribution, except that your employer cannot prohibit you from talking about or soliciting for a union during non-work time, such as before or after work or during break times; or from distributing union literature during non-work time, in non-work areas, such as parking lots or break rooms. Also, restrictions on your efforts to communicate with co-workers cannot be discriminatory. For example, your employer cannot prohibit you from talking about the union during working time if it permits you to talk about other non-work-related matters during working time.
Actually you can talk about Union participation off the clock and off the premises. Under no circumstances will Union activity be conducted on property belonging to Walmart or any of its' subsidiaries. You cannot talk about or distribute Union information while on a break or lunch while on company property. Walmart Corporation has and will close down stores/clubs as necessary to restrict this activity.
Now, with that being said, you need to be very careful who you approach and have any conversation about Unions. They will terminate.
Unions are friggin’ useless. They take their union dues out of your paycheck with no problem but do nothing to help in the long run. I don’t want anyone else fighting my battles but me. Been there, done that and it is not at all what it’ ace out to be. Unions are not like they use to be.
Cr-p like that is exactly why we need a union. The company is ruthless and cares about nothing but $$.
They will surely fire you if you talk union. Seen it done. They've closed whole stores before because they talked union. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/union-walmart-shut-5-stores-over-labor-activism/
"Plus take $75 or more a paycheck from you. "
You making $2500 a week?
Union dues generally run about 1.5% of gross pay
If unions are so bad for us workers, why does the company fight them so hard?
Unions equal more people telling you what to do. Who will make more than you do and even do less work than you do. Plus take $75 or more a paycheck from you.
It's illegal for them to terminate anybody just because they are openly promoting a union. They are scumbags and will fire people and even close stores for bogus reasons, but if we multiply like that damn virus they can't close us all.