I understand. I grew up in St. Louis, which is a big labor town. And I saw people who were able to provide for their families and own homes because they were union
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Makes perfect sense, and I believe there are excesses too. Labor laws vary so much, though -- I've seen places where some occupations are unionized and others are not, within the same workplace.
The grocery store thing doesn't sound right, though. Our union dues (in a small closed shop of about 60 employees, say) were a very small percentage of our wages -- I mean, really small. And the large labor union for which actually worked -- it had 53,000 members, and its dues also were quite small. So I think there's something fishy about that grocery store set-up. Unions can't just set dues to whatever the heck they want. (I'm not saying it didn't happen, but if it did I doubt it was allowed to persist for long.)
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The grocery store thing doesn't sound right, though. Our union dues (in a small closed shop of about 60 employees, say) were a very small percentage of our wages -- I mean, really small. And the large labor union for which actually worked -- it had 53,000 members, and its dues also were quite small. So I think there's something fishy about that grocery store set-up. Unions can't just set dues to whatever the heck they want. (I'm not saying it didn't happen, but if it did I doubt it was allowed to persist for long.)
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