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Workers of the world unite! One down, many more to go.
Unfortunately its not one down, not by a long shot. Voting for the union is just the first step in a long, LONG process. Employers would obviously rather that the employees not vote for the union. When they do vote for the union, the employer resorts to plan B, which is the stall. Take where I work for example: we voted to go union seven years ago. We still do not have a contract. We have not had a raise in over seven years now. When employees vote to go union they go into what is called status quo. No changes in working conditions can occur without a contract. Pay cannot go up or down. Benefits cannot change. I still pay the same for my medical benefits as I did seven years ago,but the plan is the same. Non union employees may pay a few dollars more for their medical plan, but their plan is far superior. Their co pays are far lower. They can get an out patient surgery for $100 vs. $1000 for our plan. The amount of money that they have to pay out of pocket per year is far less. They may hit the ceiling at $2000 where we are at $8000. Employers do this on purpose to stir up shit between the union sides and the non union sides of the house. They print up brochures showing the plans every year at benefit enrollment time. The people stuck in status quo see how they are getting fucked hard by their plans. New employees who were not working there when the union vote happened start bitching about the union, about how it is causing us to get screwed. Older employees get tired of not getting raises and they move to other properties that pay a lot more. The union looks like the bad guy to the newer employees, and they call for a vote to decertify the union. Its a union busting trick, and it works. Several casinos in town have voted to go union only to have another vote years later to decertify the union because the employees are stuck in limbo.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/ ... e-2549031/It has happened to several casinos in town already. Almost all of them are stations casinos. They have also sold off other casinos that voted to go union, and they have refused to reopen three casinos that they closed during the mass shutdown of 2020 for covid. Two of the ones that remain closed were just up the street from me. I used to go there all the time to eat and watch movies (almost all of our movie theaters, bowling alleys, and ice skating rinks are located inside casinos here). Thousands of long term employees who gave everything for the company have permanently lost their jobs. Just as hard as the unions work,the other side is not sitting still. They bring in lawyers who specialize in union busting. They know every trick and create new ones every day. Sad to say but certain companies in Las Vegas are at the forefront when it comes to union busting. I am sure that Amazon executives have already booked their stay in Vegas to learn from the best when it comes to union busting.
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