Apple Continues Efforts to Keep Retail Stores from Unionizing
Here’s the problem I have with this discourse:<p>> Apple also withheld new benefits from unionized locations, drawing outcry from labor advocates.<p>I am pro-union. Fight for your rights! But understand what you’re getting into: once you engage with a third party (union) to negotiate for you, you will <i>only get what you bargain for</i>. The animus around unequal benefits ought to be directed to their union leaders, who need to do their fucking jobs and bargain for the benefits. That’s what you pay them for!<p>It’s up to the individual and the collective to figure out how and whether unionizing benefits them in the context of their employer-employee relationship. Eyes open: the company has interests too. Mischaracterizing those interests is a disservice when you’re at the negotiating table.