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A Union is big business they are looking at keeping costs down and profits up. Most people who unionize a company fail to realize that the landscape they work in is going to change radically everyone will become an adversary with the company?s management, politics will now consume at least 10 percent of everyone?s time. Pay will only go as far as the industry standard is, because the company has to make money the biggest winner in Unionizing is the Unions. You will find that most union officials have little or no college and many of them never finished high school but they still manage to get paid well over 100 K a year. The employees medical insurance will get worse every year. Most of the retirement programs give scandalous returns if you leave early or die before retirement the union keeps all the money you paid in for all those years. If you want to work in the same place for the rest of your working life go ahead and join. Remember this Unions are parasites that survive onwhat they can hustle out of the members and the companies, at best they can be a tool in real bad situations but the tool needs to be maintained by the employees and 99percent will not do it.

The only reason that Unions were once powerful was that they worked at educating the employees and helped them get good contracts. The employees on the other hand were committed; they regularly attended meetings, went to work shops to learn how to enforce a contract, and worked hard to make the companyfollow it. People today will not do that they want to clock out and forget about work and they do just that.

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by hmael

by using a standard IT training. Now there are so many different modes of training it is hard to know which one is best. I do not want to give up my hard earned cash to some joker that is probably on the take anyway. Many unions will allow you to pay a fee then go right to work. This would hurt all of us in the industry. I will not vote for a union.

by rzan

I was never a supporter of unions or unionization of employees. You pay dues and get stiffed with nothing by joining a union. I feel that if you are good at what you do and your employer refuses to raise your salary, then find another job. Why would IT "professionals" continue to work for a bastard of a boss if they know that they have no potential for growth? I did just that, I knew that I would not see a raise working for a state gov't agence so I left to work for a multination private legal firm. I will now have bonuses, raises, training, and advancement opportunity. If I were in a union, all I would be able to do is strike against my former employer, which amounts to nothing more than parading around with signs and bithing loudlyon the picket line. If you are being underpaid, then QUIT and find a better paying job. We are not plumbers or electricians, we are managers and administrators of an intergral part of any company (the network). To unionize us would be personally insulting to the prestige which comes with being called an IT professional.

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