Growing up, I didn’t even know how powerful unions were.
My mom worked at a factory and hurt herself when I was a kid. She couldn’t work for months. The union was why I was able to still get food and do hospital visits. She healed up and went right back to work.
With my first kid, my wife’s job decided her pregnancy was interfering with their need for labor so they fired her. They made it ABSOLUTELY CLEAR it wasn’t a pregnancy-related firing over and over again, but that she wasn’t meeting expectations… Because her body hurts from being pregnant. No legal protection either.
What gets me is that the vast majority of Americans actually believe they still have these protections when they don’t. Like, they aren’t even AWARE of the problem.
Go to any work related discussion and you’ll hear people going on and on about how you can’t get fired for this or that or you’re entitled to one thing or another and 90% if the time they are totally incorrect.
Growing up, I didn’t even know how powerful unions were.
My mom worked at a factory and hurt herself when I was a kid. She couldn’t work for months. The union was why I was able to still get food and do hospital visits. She healed up and went right back to work.
With my first kid, my wife’s job decided her pregnancy was interfering with their need for labor so they fired her. They made it ABSOLUTELY CLEAR it wasn’t a pregnancy-related firing over and over again, but that she wasn’t meeting expectations… Because her body hurts from being pregnant. No legal protection either.
What gets me is that the vast majority of Americans actually believe they still have these protections when they don’t. Like, they aren’t even AWARE of the problem.
Go to any work related discussion and you’ll hear people going on and on about how you can’t get fired for this or that or you’re entitled to one thing or another and 90% if the time they are totally incorrect.
The worst thing capitalism did was convince us we didn’t need unions.
They’re close to getting reminded that unions are the compromise.