I've often wondered about the viability of this tactic.
There are piles of rules protecting workers rights to collectively bargain, preventing businesses from interfering with unionization, and forcing them to deal only with the union selected by the employees. But what, if anything, prevents a business from simply offering a better deal to non-union members to disincentivize union membership?
I can't speak for all businesses, but all the ones I've dealt with you didn't have an option. You joined the union or you didn't have the job. So it wasn't a viable tactic because it didn't have any comparison because there either was no union, all union, or only union in a completely different section of the business with such different pay/benefits it didn't matter.
I've seen some where people can become worker/managers, where on days they're working as a grunt, they're unionized, but on days they're working as managers, they're non-unionized. But those are generally worst-of-both-worlds, not best.
Yeah my old job was one of those. Luckily our specific building voted the union out years ago, but every other location the manager was non-union while all the workers were.
My buddy who xferred over said it was the worst possible position to try and manage in.
I've often wondered about the viability of this tactic.
There are piles of rules protecting workers rights to collectively bargain, preventing businesses from interfering with unionization, and forcing them to deal only with the union selected by the employees. But what, if anything, prevents a business from simply offering a better deal to non-union members to disincentivize union membership?
I can't speak for all businesses, but all the ones I've dealt with you didn't have an option. You joined the union or you didn't have the job. So it wasn't a viable tactic because it didn't have any comparison because there either was no union, all union, or only union in a completely different section of the business with such different pay/benefits it didn't matter.
I've seen some where people can become worker/managers, where on days they're working as a grunt, they're unionized, but on days they're working as managers, they're non-unionized. But those are generally worst-of-both-worlds, not best.
Yeah my old job was one of those. Luckily our specific building voted the union out years ago, but every other location the manager was non-union while all the workers were.
My buddy who xferred over said it was the worst possible position to try and manage in.