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Delta urges workers to pay for video games, not union dues
Delta Air Lines Inc. confirmed Thursday that it's behind a widely criticized poster suggesting that nonunion employees buy video games rather than spend their money on union dues. (www.nbcnews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
To be fair, the poster didn’t really say to buy a video game console instead of unionizing - it just provided a comparison to the cost of union dues. And the union responded with... a meme showing a guillotine, for some reason. Both sides have been pretty tone-deaf here, IMHO.
Bugga the unions, dues are a ripoff and all unions only help themselves these days, not their members. Also bugga the games, better off buying shares.
this resonates more heavily with the millennial generation than with any previous generation and due to detailed study and analysis Delta knows this. my past experience working with unions in both air transport and ground transport is usually related to a jaded workforce resentful of the other parts of the working team or staff with very little beneficial output by the union. unions were created with a very good purpose but in this day and age have become obsolete and more deterimental to a company than useful to a company. apart from negotiating higher pay very little else is and can be done by unions usually due to politics and psuedo-hierarchy. in transportation industry, only pilots benefit from unions in pay and work rules and crash investigations.
Tell that to an employee that is fired for something minor and has no grievance or arbitration process. Without unions, you operate under the "good old boy" system.
at will employment is what it is, even with unions. so what?
I definitely don't agree with Delta on this. The sign is demeaning in my opinion to their employees. It is the right of employees to try and organize. It is also the carriers right to demonstrate through good faith practices why employees should not. Telling them to spend money on video games is not doing that.