Insight Into The Iam

[700UW]

Interesting, one of the largest unions in the US is the SEIU:

Fast Facts About SEIU

The Service Employees International Union is 1.8 million working people and 120,000 retirees united to improve our jobs and our communities. Learn more about us.

SEIU Membership

Our 1.8 million members in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico include:

Health Care -- hospital, nursing home, clinic, and home care workers

Public Employees -- federal, state, county, municipal, and school employees

Building Service -- janitors, elevator operators, and security guards

Industrial & Allied -- industrial, racetrack, and ballpark workers

Members of SEIU work as nurses, doctors, social service workers, building cleaners, police and corrections officers, librarians, head start employees, maintenance workers, lab technicians, nurse assistants, and more.

SEIU represents a diverse membership. A majority of members are women. Some 20 percent are African American. SEIU represents more immigrant workers than any other union in the U.S.

There are more than 300 SEIU local affiliates and 25 state councils. For more information, visit Local Unions.

 

[usair_begins_with_u]

There is some evidence that has shown that organized labor (unions) may be losing the strength it once had: job growth has been fastest in industries where unions are weakest, while job losses are greatest in sectors where unions are strongest. For example, between 1984 and 1997, the 30 fastest-growing sectors of the U.S. economy (such as hospitality, child care, finance, retail trade and airline) added 26 million new jobs, but only one out of 20 workers in those sectors became a union member. In industries with the greatest job losses (such as auto and steal), four fifths of the 2.1 million jobs lost belonged to members of organized labor groups.

Some economists have attributed these trends to some unions' demands for unrealistic wages and confrontations with management, causing companies to move their operations to countries where organized labor does not exist.

Go figure... Unions have pushed more work overseas than any CEO or politician

 

[johnnyfleet]

GO ask the agents what happened to them in 1992 and you will find your answer.

[post="270593"][/post]​

Actually things were better in 1992 than they are now, no stations were being contracted out, we still had retiree medical, wages higher than 2005, many more paid days off per year. PDO wasn't really a bad system for people that didn't abuse sick time. I had 5 weeks off per year, after putting 5 days in the reserve bank, with only 5 years of seniority at the time . Sure we lost our pension in 92, but now everyone has lost it.

 

[usair_begins_with_u]

there you go 700.. straight from the horses mouth....

Actually things were better in 1992 than they are now, no stations were being contracted out, we still had retiree medical, wages higher than 2005, many more paid days off per year. PDO wasn't really a bad system for people that didn't abuse sick time. I had 5 weeks off per year, after putting 5 days in the reserve bank, with only 5 years of seniority at the time . Sure we lost our pension in 92, but now everyone has lost it.

 

[delldude]

there you go 700.. straight from the horses mouth....

[post="271058"][/post]​

thats an invalid comparison.......times weren't the best then but we weren't in BK twice... either....... thats whats driven our demise.... ..........
things weren't that bad??
i heard lots of screams when forced into part time due to you guys losing your representaton......yeah it wasn't that bad....
lots whining at the 141 LL1976 meetings and it wasn't from mechs....yeah it wasn't too bad then.....

 

[RedOne]

Sure, be a employee at will and let the company do whatever they please and you have no recourse and no say.

Ask the agents about 1992 and see why a union is needed at US Airways.

[post="270614"][/post]​

A union was needed in 1992 and one is needed now. Only problem is the F/S agents voted in the wrong union then....and they are stuck with them now.