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The owner of the local produce stand I worked at for years said he didn't mind me playing union songs and handing out IWW pins on labor day, but he didn't hire me back the next season.
Also after throwing me under the bus legally and medically when the brakes went out on the busted up motorcycle he bought for me to commute when my truck broke down. I separated one shoulder, destroyed my rotator cuff on the other, and suffered a major concussion. He told me the bike was insured (he lied), that it had a small enough engine that I didn't need a motorcycle license (he lied), and stationed me at a satellite location where no one else was there to lift boxes, so I couldn't wear a sling or take time to heal properly. Then he took me off salary and back to my starting hourly wage.
I was thinking the same thing with fast food (where I work). You might be able to unionize several chains in one geographic location, but even that sounds like a tremendous logistics hurdle.
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The owner of the local produce stand I worked at for years said he didn't mind me playing union songs and handing out IWW pins on labor day, but he didn't hire me back the next season. Also after throwing me under the bus legally and medically when the brakes went out on the busted up motorcycle he bought for me to commute when my truck broke down. I separated one shoulder, destroyed my rotator cuff on the other, and suffered a major concussion. He told me the bike was insured (he lied), that it had a small enough engine that I didn't need a motorcycle license (he lied), and stationed me at a satellite location where no one else was there to lift boxes, so I couldn't wear a sling or take time to heal properly. Then he took me off salary and back to my starting hourly wage.
We should update the rhyme, it's more like a halfpenny these days.
It's retail, nobody here thinks it's feasible.
I was thinking the same thing with fast food (where I work). You might be able to unionize several chains in one geographic location, but even that sounds like a tremendous logistics hurdle.