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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
Our Goals
- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
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Where I work now, Big Lots, is the greatest example of a company that needs a union I have ever seen. However in the less than 6 months I've been there the staff has almost entirely changed and we've gone from about 15 employees to about 8. It's the worst corporate nonsense, the worst pay, the worst hours, the worst benefits, the worst recognition, and the worst job in general I've ever fucking had by a MASSIVE margin, so naturally it forces employees to watch the strongest anti union video I've ever bore witness to in my life. I would love to start a union here, but by the time I even talked to everyone half of them will have quit already.
I hope you're looking something else. You shouldn't subject yourself to that bullshit.
Bro I'm barely hanging on. I can't pay my bills anymore, I can barely afford to eat, I have zero energy and I'm depressed constantly. I have easily put out hundreds of applications on Indeed in the past few months and had no luck finding anything close to decent at all, I get a few calls here and there but the jobs are always wild as fuck, like the Amazon company that called me yesterday that wanted me to only work Saturday and Sunday for 12 hours each day. I have honestly considered pan handling as I know I would legitimately make ten fold what I'm making for 1% of the effort, but primarily these days I just think about ending it all.
I used to make good money and threw it all away due to stress. Big fucking idiot I am had no idea what small stress I was trading in was going to be replaced by the biggest stress and the lowest points of my life.
What would it take to get back into the thing that made you good money?