Thread regarding Fidelity Investments layoffs

Collective bargaining is about as anti republican as you can get. What do republicans love more than themselves? Money. How many money loving people do you think work here? Lots. You won’t get a union here because the employees don’t want it. But your benefits and pay will stay much much more stable if you’re in one. Plenty of jobs out there have unionized because corporations just take and take and take without concern for the employees wellbeing. Unions are in your best interest, not the company’s. Corporations will continue to encourage their employees to distrust unions on repeat.

Tell me a unionized business in the country with 7% 401k match plus 10% profit sharing and $3k per year retirement contribution on top of generous shares for upper grades?

Go read some history.

You have one bargaining chip. And that's to walk out of the door. When enough people do that, there may be some relief. Until then, we will continue to get squeezed more and more. There is no limit to how difficult they can make this for us. They haven't thought through what would happen when the good people do leave. Dark days are still ahead of us. But hold tight, nothing lasts forever here.

There's nothing anti-American about unionizing. The issue is that there's not a union in the country that could walk into a collective bargaining session with Fidelity and come out with a better benefits package than what we have now. A previous poster mentioned this as well. Any union that claims they could get us better than what we already have is lying. Collective bargaining is a huge gamble. Everything is up for grabs.

@OP ok Norma Rae. tell me you're a DSA member without telling me.

Lol.

In a unionized shop a legal injunction to force bargaining would have been general direction things took after RTO was announced. It's too late for that now too because any Union enter be formed with RTO as existing terms.

The reality is that a union would fail to get sufficient members at Fidelity because Fidelity would lever all benefits onto the table as part of any negotiation. Want a Union? Risk sacrificing all retirement benefits, shares, bonuses, etc. and getting into messy collective bargaining process for pay rises. Or maybe even sacrifice an entire office location!

Turkeys don't vote for Thanksgiving. You would never get enough people to sign the ballot. And this is the simplified version of the explanation where the employer isn't using every legal avenue available to make it difficult.

What are you 10? Why would they have to go to court to prove it. It’s their company they make the rules.