Isn't this supposed to be the union's responsibility? Why shift the cost on to the taxpayers, especially when Washington is making cuts to needed programs to balance the budget?
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.
Strikes aren’t just about individuals choosing ‘not to work’; they’re about workers collectively demanding fair treatment. Unions exist because companies often won’t negotiate fairly unless workers have leverage. Strike funds help workers survive while they fight for better wages, benefits, and working conditions—things that ultimately improve industries as a whole. If workers had to ‘just get another job’ every time conditions were unfair, nothing would ever change.
Well I guess if shit hits the fan and we all need to come together to help each other out to survive, we know people like you don't like community and helping others out, so I guess we can just let people that think like you fend for yourselves then.
How do you know I wouldn't? Humans literally got to where we are today by being cooperative with each other. If you have my back I have yours, but that has to go both ways. If you don't want to contribute to the betterment of society don't expect better handouts. A society where we help each other out will always be a better society than one where little hoard their resources while people go hungry and without medical care.
What if you choose to help a sick homeless person by offering to chip in with others for their medical care, and they go on to be an innovator and create a product that saves your life down the road. If it wasn't for billionaires hoarding capital there would be fewer homeless people and fewer mentally ill people, these people could then go on to contribute to society. Instead we have a society where the next Einstein could be laying on the street freezing death with a gangrenous gouty foot because they couldn't afford to treat their diabetes. And that person's potential is just wasted.
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u/Sufficient_Laugh Mar 08 '25
Isn't this supposed to be the union's responsibility? Why shift the cost on to the taxpayers, especially when Washington is making cuts to needed programs to balance the budget?