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UAW expands strike as nearly 9,000 workers walk off job at Ford's largest plant (www.upi.com)

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[-] ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunately I don't think any of the new electric car manufacturers are unionized. So a lot of these people would lose union gigs and end up with less pay/benefits at a non-union shop. Sire they could unionized again but that's it's own battle just to get back to where they started.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago

New companies don't usually treat their people shitty while starting up. Otherwise they'd never make it in the first place. I think it's later down the road when the greed kicks in and workers start getting screwed. So at least for a few years it should be win/win even without a union.

[-] Magrath@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

That's not true. Start ups tend to take advantage of people's hopes and dream of working for a start up. Not sure what the big deal is with start ups. Here's the first article I found from a quick google search https://sifted.eu/articles/mental-health-workplace

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

A data set of 133 europeans isn't much to base anything on. I do believe there are plenty of startups that are shitty to work for due to the reasons outlined in the article. How many are like that is hard to say.