What does it mean for employees to want to start a union? What’s a union? What does it do? Why do people want it and why do company’s fire you over it?
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Your parents give you and your friends a job to rake the leaves and mow the lawn in the backyard. Your parents though can see one of your friends is struggling. They can tell your friend who is struggling ” you’re fired” or “we aren’t going to pay you as much because you aren’t doing a good job”.
So you and your friends decide to start a group. And in this group you are a tightly knit bunch in terms of guidelines and rules. Such as you all get to vote on things like how much pay you get among other terms… And how you can’t just fire one of us if our friend is struggling. That’s my brother/sister/friend and we will protect him/her
It is basically a group of workers who’s purpose is to prevents a company from doing whatever it wants, violating worker rights and taking advantage. And give the workers a right to negotiate what would be fair wage and make sure everyone gets paid and not fired if they get hurt, sick, disability etc…
So your parents now can’t fire your friend who was struggling or pay them less because you determined and negotiated you all get paid the same.
Companies don’t like unions and will fire people trying to start one cuz it’s a huge hassle for them and they lose some leverage.
It’s not all roses tho there are cons. Such as having a bad union leader and bad negotiation skills. And having to pay into a union.
Example:
You and your friends get paid from your parents. You all got 20 dollars each. Each of you puts 5 dollars each into your “union” and continue to do so with each pay. This ensures that if one of you gets hurt and can’t work (not getting paid from your parents) your group of friends/union will pay your hurt friend a couple bucks out from the union dues they paid into so they still get paid something until they can work again. (Again it’s a bit more complicated than that, you will run out of money you paid into the union and thus not get anymore subpay, but you’re 5).
So in big boy world, if you get laid off from a company you get paid still on top of unemployment. Your union dues in which you paid gets you sub pay. which is 80 percent(was in my union) I think of what you were making while you worked. So you can get some of that back if you were to get laid off.
If you don’t get laid off well then you just pay union dues. Kinda like insurance. Lol
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