It is soo good. A tech company i just got offer from. In their onboarding app, they let me join the union on the first day.
This is what you see in the company with strong union.
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And a screenshot with a nearly full battery? They clearly hired well.
No, you're not supposed to go beyond 80%. Fire that fool immediately. /s
Fuck apple and it's "AI powered" battery charge protector for my laptop that says it'll stop it at 80% (or 85%?) based on your usage habits, but always charges it to full because fuck your battery. I'd bet money they don't give you the option to permanently set it and not be AI driven because they know the battery dies sooner because their AI battery manager sucks.
I may be triggered.
No, they give you the option to cap the charge percentage at 80% but you’ll need to buy iPhone 15 to get it 🙃
Jesus, my Moto G from 2022 has that feature... Apple is a bunch of aasholes.
I'm specifically talking about macbooks.
My laptop is of course at 100% despite what this says, plugged into my wall outlet, like usual.
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Some phones will allow you to select battery protection - 100% at 80%, 0% at 20%
This is most often an effect of collective bargaining between unions and the company, not their gesture of goodwill. Teleperformance, a massive global shared service was recently forced to do that by Uni Global Union.
So weird that a union is such a weird taboo and looked down upon by employers in the US.
No it's not. Greed rules and corporate greed is king.
You don't get it. I mean it is very weird from an outside perspective that this is normalized.
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When my job unionized (it was through an amalgamation), my union immediately fired a grievance against the managers that got amalgamated who did some shady shit, and I got a 2500 dollar payout, and they got told to quit/retire or be fired, so they did. Everyone needs a union.
Canada just had legislation go into aff3ect every 5 hours needs a 30 min break. A pro worker move!
But my shift is 10 hours and the company pettily tacked on the extra half hour unpaid. They get no extra work from me, just forced to sit at the end.
Unions fighting it, speaking even to the Labour Minister. I like unions.
So you're working at E-corp and they want to sign you up for the F-society?
The only thing that would be less G-money than that would be if the job was in H-town.
Nah, I J/K.
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If the employer if promoting a union, its probably somewhat in their pocket. Its just an extension of HR. I used to use the printer in the same room as my workplace HR and the union rep would constantly be insulting employees behind their backs to them.
could also be in their contract with the union that they must promote it
Only time this hasn't happened to me in my "career" years was employment with US companies. But they still had enterprise agreements approved by the government ensuring we didn't end up like...well...US citizens
I like to tell Libertarian types that even if European systems aren't perfect they still have material results. If they want people to buy into their Austrian mindset they need to deliver more to get votes to further de regulate. Fortunately corporations short term thinking means that ideology will never have popular good will.
I got a job once that required me to join the union. It was bagging groceries part time for minimum wage at a grocery store. Sorry I don't mean to be a downer, I see union membership as a good thing. Unions are like democracy. They are only as good as the people they are made of.
Yeah, I got really screwed by Pepsi and their "union". Overall though, unions are great and we need more of them to combat shit employers. Just don't let your union reps be company men...
Yeah, my brothers first job in a grocery store, sane thing. He was required to join a union and the dues taken out of his pay, despite being part time minimum wage for the summer . All the union benefits were for full timers, so it was basically stealing money from people who could least afford it.
I’m generally pro- union but for sure there are some taking advantage
What good is the union if they can't even get you more than minimum wage? Wow.
Yeah I didn't work there very long. It was 1984 and unemployment was 10%. Being fresh out of high school I took whatever I could find
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The F*** family
No joke, I see this becoming more common. They’re even doing it the way I imagined: straight up integrated with onboarding.
Maybe it’s an outspoken prediction, that in the future many more businesses will prefer a unionized workforce, but I think a number of current societal and market vectors would suggest that trend. In particular, consider the variety of HR-related logistics, liabilities, and relational concerns of a modern business that amount to operational overhead. You can likely imagine ways that unions might simplify, stabilize, or fully externalize that friction, such that the increased productivity outweighs higher labor expenses, similar to the way efficiency wages in labor economics can ultimately reduce turnover related expenses. That’s just one way unions could become an attractive solution to employers and employees alike.
At any rate, it’s what I would prefer if I needed to hire W2s, to the extent that I’d be willing to help spin up local chapters if necessary, and it only takes a handful of successful examples to accelerate labor trends.
Unions have long made businesses run better. They don't fight unionization efforts because of profit. They do it because of control.
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Seriously in Europe many investment funds activly go to the unions and ask which problems the company have. They are often better informed and honest then the normal management. They also have an obvious intresst in keeping the company around.
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I'm coming at this from the bottom. But it's incredibly sus to me.
I'd contact the union direct and speak to them about this before I signed.
If I may ask, what company?
Is this not the norm? The only two jobs I ever had that had unions, did the same thing. Though, they also had the union rep come and explain shit before you filled out any paperwork.
Huh, hadn’t seen that before. But does that necessarily mean it is a strong union? Couldn’t it also mean it’s an employer-controlled union that is not really going to do anything for you?
It's more likely there not because the employer wanted it, but because the union demanded it.
You've got a point. This can be a sign of something sinister. It's not necessarily a bad a sign but the situation that the previous user pointed out happens frequently enough that it could be.
Employer controlled union. That's oxymoron.
No not really, if you read more about unions you will see that they aren’t always working in their members’ best interests and sometimes union leadership will ally with employers to secure their futures above those of union members. Not all unions are created equal. From what little I know and have read in the past about unions. Not that I have first hand experience.
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Hell yeah
Love unions! Everyone in my family was union, or currently is.
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