Especially IT folks. This is the only way you can protect yourselves from all out greed. I know unions are not always beneficial to employees. Do your research and consider it. You only need 30% of a specific group to organize.
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Comparing Nike US with Nike EMEA is perfectly justified! Nike, as a global company, is channeling ALL its profits through tax construction havens like the Netherlands.
The issue with comparing Nike US with Nike EMEA is that sales might better outside the US which would justify less layoffs.
If I were H1B I'd just wait around until Nike fired all of the unionizers and pick up the extra work. Might have to fight some ETWs, but it's worth it.
The paragraph of this original post claims IT should unionize. Can H1B visa holders be a part of the union?!?
Nike, Inc. has filed 704 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 110 labor certifications for green card from fiscal year 2017 to 2019. Nike was ranked 231 among all visa sponsors. ... actually got the visa and hired the workers. Nike, Inc. has applied for 1,058 LC and LCA from fiscal year 2017 to 2019.
Please count the number of layoffs in Nike EMEA per 1,000 employees end-September and compare that number with layoffs at Nike HQ.
The difference will tell you the value of a union / work councils!
Agreed. I think COVID is going to turn certain industries on their heads in terms of labor. If you look at the amount of actual work you get done in a day versus how much time you're sitting in an office trying to look busy, you might come to the conclusion you could actually be holding down multiple jobs working from home. That gives you a lot of control. That also means less layers of management. I'd be worried now if my only skill was managing other people.
Unionizing helps when employers hold the upper hand in a Job market. It creates a larger collective than just the individual labor. In IT its still a employee driven job market (covid impacts aside). With remote working a real option the compulsion of Nike or nothing in Portland is even less compelling. Tying your everything to one company is a bad idea.
You are all so mistreated with your 6 figuure salaries free kombucha and 2 hour lunch breaks. The music will stop and some of you won’t have a chair. Life isn’t fair. Appreciate what you have or had and move on.
I agree with @1xcm. You want Nike to go under, unionize. Maybe you should go and take a business 101 class.
Unions just leech from the workers while providing little to no value to the employee.
@kgz - That's just not true. Engineers at Boeing and Lockheed have been union for a long. There's no reason why Nike employees cannot organize.
Unions were conceived to protect blue collar manufacturing factory workers from exploitative fat cats sitting at desks doing nothing to add to production. Ask yourself, are you the person making the shoes, or are you a fat cat sitting your a– at an air conditioned desk?
@mvk - what are talking about? That came directly from my textbook.
First time posting just to say that ANYTHING that Breitbart writes is absolute trash. Never ever cite that far right hellhole.
@wcf - you are wrong. You can have an election w/in 25 days. If you succeed, Nike MUST deal with that union. In 2015, the NLRB issued new rulings to speed up organizational actvities.
"The changes are intended to shorten the time between the call for a vote and actual election to 25 days or less"
Not as easy as you think and even with “only 30% of a group” is needed. Nike will have to accept negotiating with a union and approve the concept; cannot be forced into Nike. Legal ramifications and long drawn out process awaits everyone involved in such thing. You want a better option? Leave Nike and be happy else where. That is what I will do.
- S.-India Outsourcing Economy
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2020/08/07/mike-lees-s386-bill-creates-green-card-lite-for-more-migrants/
Sen. Mike Lee’s latest version of S.386 creates a novel “Green Card Lite” legal status to help Fortune 500 companies import many more Indian graduates into U.S. white collar jobs.
At least 300,000 Indian workers, plus at least 300,000 immediate family members are waiting for green cards.
They are waiting because investors, Fortune 500 companies, and the Indian government together created a U.S.-India Outsourcing Economy, in which roughly 200,000 Indian graduates are imported each year to replace American graduates or to bring U.S. white collar jobs back to India.
The little recognized outsourcing economy keeps at roughly one million Indians legal and illegal workers in the United States. This population floods the white collar labor market and cuts opportunities and salaries for American professionals, so boosting stock values for American investors and sending roughly $80 billion in trade back to India.