Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

I want a union like I want an en▯▯a. No thanks, but I know some of you would enjoy both.

This comes up 2 or 3 times every year and has for the last 30 years. Nothing happens, nothing will.

We need a union!

OK, since you bring it up, let’s look at what’s happening with the pandemic. Unemployment is really high. If you don’t like your job and want to demand more more more, there are more people willing to step in and take your allegedly insufferable job than there have been during any of our lifetimes. So State Farm can replace you in a heartbeat and still have a waiting list a mile long.
All the while, you’re paying some mob bosses to get rich off of your misfortune. That’s not a recipe for success.

i'm looking into starting a union now, especially with everything going on right now with the pandemic

Atleast 9 years ago, told we supported unions but should there be literature out in the open to pick it up..,,,

I am not sure who negotiates our healthcare costs but they DO need to be fired.

You go Samuel Gompers..

Ha. Yea let's start a union so we can strangle SF even faster

If you look in L&D for training, you will now see video classes available for management regarding Union organizing activity. Within the lessons , it lists how to recognize union activity, explaining the benefits of remaining union free, etc. Isn’t it ironic that they are treating us like crap and suddenly offer classes for managers on how to spot union activity and what to do?

To the OP... you're more than welcome to start up the process. The company can not stop you. However if I ran this place I would fire all unionized employees and not look back.

Unfortunately unions are a thing of the past, it’s not all for me, none for us.

Recollections of a “State Farmers Daughter”

I remember growing up poor. There were eight of us kids and mama and daddy did the best they could for all us. We got new shoes for school, just once a year. We grew up in company housing, just off Hershey. The worst of times was when the Company paid in chits. Folks could only redeem them at the company store, so most days we had SFlogo peppermints for supper. Daddy got real mad one year. He used his founder day meal chit to order five pizzas, to bring home to us kids. Management had Some of them big tough security goons bust him up pretty bad because of that. We melted snow on the pot belly stove to wash his wounds with.

It hasn’t happened in 95 years because employees were never treated this way until now. And yes, if a fellow employee needed help, I would extend a hand, a room in my home, etc... WE are in this together. United and not divided.

Brothers and sisters? So all those people that lost their jobs are your brothers and sisters?

Then you won’t mind if they stay at your place a little while as they get back on their feet.

I think most of us are nervous about a discussion of a union for fear of losing our job... but at this point there is no job security, claims workload is beyond unreasonable, requesting a day off is a major feat, if you are allowed the time off getting unburied from work is incredibly stressful.

I then see my brothers and sisters in IT and Proximity losing their jobs with many so close to reaching 55 without the grandfathering in of health insurance. This is just not right.

In time, Underwriting positions will be far fewer due to system enhancements. I want everyone to be treated fairly when this process begins.

We need to move forward as a company, embrace technology, ‘cut the fat’ as many posters have said... totally agree with you. But there has to be a better system for selection of those let go and a better package for those so close to retirement age.

I don’t see things changing anytime soon. While my department is not currently impacted by layoffs, I stand with those of you dealing with this crazy unfairness.

Hasn’t happened in 95 years, doesn’t stand a chance now.