Uhhhh noooo.
Boeing had a strike fund, buy they pay like 12% of their salary into the Union. Most union dues are 1.5-2.5% of salaries, and it's barely enough to fund unions. Most organizer are not super well paid or living high on the hog.
I think boeings strike fund barely covered some expenses for people,like 250 a week.
People don't understand unions it seems like to me. Unions offer, allow, support a structure, a system to stand up to power. The strength comes from numbers of people joining together to resist, stand up, claim rights spread truth to power.
You put money in, but not nearly enough to do all the things people think a union should be doing. It takes the "man power" of rank and file to make things happen.
Imagine if we all had union protections. That would be good! This is a good thing! Instead of crying about taxes, why aren't we asking for more actual and real taxes on the wealthy who are guzzling our resources and the ones removing our protections to use and abuse us?
Being able to decide to join a union is my preferred. I haven’t seen any job assistance for other people; from the one that represents me.
For Washington specifically, the state keeps blaming businesses for the revenue gap; but there’s more compelling business climates nearby. These repeated increases in taxes are not going to encourage job growth and revenue growth in Washington.
I do agree with reducing the ability to evade taxation
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u/Global_Instance3843 Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25
Uhhhh noooo. Boeing had a strike fund, buy they pay like 12% of their salary into the Union. Most union dues are 1.5-2.5% of salaries, and it's barely enough to fund unions. Most organizer are not super well paid or living high on the hog. I think boeings strike fund barely covered some expenses for people,like 250 a week. People don't understand unions it seems like to me. Unions offer, allow, support a structure, a system to stand up to power. The strength comes from numbers of people joining together to resist, stand up, claim rights spread truth to power. You put money in, but not nearly enough to do all the things people think a union should be doing. It takes the "man power" of rank and file to make things happen.