• GladiusB@lemmy.world
    91·
    1 year ago

    Depends on the union. Sometimes they are just there as a mouthpiece for management. Sometimes they fight for worker’s rights.

      • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world
        31·
        1 year ago

        Well some stewards are prone to bribing, special treatment by MGMT to turn a blind eye to certain things or back off. Others are competent, but maybe too busy for you. Others are elected because they’re popular or whatever, but as a steward they’re not knowledgeable or brave or effective. There’s lots of ways a union steward can go awry.

      • Catradora-Stalinism☭@lemmygrad.ml
        33·
        1 year ago

        During and still after the Cold war the US used state intelligence and right wing fanatics to break US labor power. The US is a country with low political intelligence and solidarity because of it.

      • jscummy@sh.itjust.works
        23·
        1 year ago

        It depends on the industry and honestly I’d be surprised if some unions in your country are not similar or worse. I’m in Chicago, which is one of the country’s biggest union strongholds, and construction unions here are often shitty and corrupt. Unions will bully and fight dirty against competing companies, sometimes even getting in spats between local chapters

          • jscummy@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            1 year ago

            Might be a difference in the role the union has fallen into. The unions I’m talking about have been given way too much power through cronyism over the years, and at this point act more like a trade association/cartel acting for the businesses against other businesses, not for the workers against management