Yeah, I used to have a manual labor job and I had heard there the company had fleets in other regions that were unionized. I was like "Cool, can we do that?"

The response was basically "No, because even though our hourly wage would be better, we would no longer be able to work so much overtime so our take-home pay would be smaller."

Even at the time I thought that sounded like a better deal (I'd gladly reduce my hours for a higher rate?) But everyone else just took that as facts and thought the unionized fleets were a bunch of suckers...

I guess it doesn't help that manual labor jobs tend to be filled with the less educated...

The union in this case is University of California workers, so probably not as big a lift as organizing a union in Corporate America. Still, a nice acheivement for those involved

Unions are why we have 30 days vacation every year in Europe. Its the entire reason why we are not completely exploited like in the US.

Many people fought very hard to make that happen.

Oh... I could put up tons of flyers with no issue. But noone will see them because I am a remote worker. :)

Wouldn't you need to be law enforcement to even begin to follow that paper trail?

Unionizing is a free market solution that disrupts a crony government which only represents connected elites.