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Unions Make Things Better (Even If You're Not In One) – EARLY ACCESS, AD-FREE, and UNCENSORED (Patreon)

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2023-05-22 20:50:30
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Hi. In today's episode, we look at the current union "boom" and how unions improve pay and conditions for workers, non-union workers, and even non-workers.

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Unions Make Things Better (Even If You're Not In One) - EARLY ACCESS, AD-FREE, and UNCENSORED

Hi. In today's episode, we look at the current union "boom" and how unions improve pay and conditions for workers, non-union workers, and even non-workers. Executive Producer - Katy Stoll Directed by Will Gordh Written by Lon Harris and Tom Reimann Edited by Gregg Meller Produced by Jonathan Harris Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales Graphics by Clint DeNisco Story Editor - Tom Reimann Head Writer - David Christopher Bell Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/somemorenews SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Please fill out our SURVEY: https://kastmedia.com/survey/ Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-more-news Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeMoreNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SomeMoreNews/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeMoreNews/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@somemorenews Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 01:49 - How Unions Raise Wages And Make Workplaces Safer 17:41 - Unions Make Us Safer And Healthier 23:50 - Unions Make Films And TV Shows Better 26:48 - Unions Protect Whistleblowers 28:53 - Unions Can Flex Political Muscle 32:57 - The GOP Really Hates Unions

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Chris Mavis

As a stats nerd, pie graphs suck.

Andrew Carkner

I'm trying to organize my workplace, but we aren't allowed to unionize because we aren't classified as employees (even though we work full-time at the same place for years). We need to either elect a worker-friendly government to update the labour laws or have 19th-century-style wildcat strikes and whatnot

Mulloy

AFLCIOwned

Matthew McCoy

Ship it good. SHIP IT REAL GOOD!

The Boustrophedonist Bricoleur

Two important mistakes Unions made in the course of their development throughout the mid-20th century that very negatively impacted their long-term popular viability: 1) involvement with organized crime that the union movement did not work ferociously to expunge (in short: corruption), and, 2) over-reliance upon seniority as a check to advancement without it, no matter how competently effective an employee proved to be… working to kill an incentive for excellence. These gave the enemies of unionization effective handles to grab.

Steven Smith

In California, LMFT therapists aren't yet part of the health workers union, but they are taking on associate members in the hope of getting us all together to get onto insurance/Medicare coverage panels. Currently it's really hard to get insurance companies to cover licensed therapists, and they tend to not even consider you until you've been licensed more than two years. This stuff wouldn't even be considered for legislation, were it not for the NUHW.

seraf

great episode as always! i was actually surprised when i saw the notif for this one, since just earlier today my friend and i were talking about the recent movements in re: unionization - both that more people are supportive of them and the new movements to block them. wishing the wga luck!

Kevin Hengehold

Always fun to see these. I was wondering, in the income of households/people who were in vs. not in unions - that's controlling for employment, right? I imagine you usually need to be employed to be in a union, while you could be employed or unemployed and not be in a union, so the earnings gap could plausibly just be a "having a job gap" if not properly controlled. I'm assuming this was considered - I just listen to a lot of people trying to bullshit about all manner of things, and when I heard this a little siren went off in my head.

tialaramex

Although there's definitely a general positive correlation between stuff unions want and stuff that's a good idea, that's not always true. The union of course represents its workers, who are individual people with less holistic priorities. Example: UK railway signallers are unionised, the relevant safety authority said, hey, you guys are safety critical (checks out), and other people in safety critical roles don't have crazy long shifts, we're going to regulate that you can't work more than 8 hours in a shift. That sounds fine right? Why would a union fight that? Well, some of these signallers would work in teams that cover a signal box in pairs of 12 hour shifts, so they work 3x12 hour or 4x12 hours shifts on alternating weeks, meaning they've got a lot more days off than regular workers, and the union, representing its members, didn't want that to end just for the sake of arguably improved safety on the railway. So they fought this. They did lose (which is good) but they fought it. You also noted in the video that cops have unions, and again, they look out for their members, for union members knowing the union will ensure you don't do jail time for breaking open some guy's skull is good - but for the public, who might get their skulls cracked open, this is not good. I dunno, nuance right, what a pain. This is why the videos about the Boar Menace are good. No nuance there. Teleporting boars are evil, very simple, everybody can get on board with that (except the boars)

Leah Maddox

As a truck driver who is continually paying higher and higher parking fees, I'm super curious where and how to pay less. Who promised lower parking fees? I used to be able to pay for parking with loyalty points, but that seems to have faded out. So I'm now fishing it out of my actual pocket, and it's much higher than it was, oh, 6 months ago, a year ago, 2 years ago, etc.

Michael G Williams

Anyone know how much they make when a regular person watches an ad vs the average patreon supporter? If not I’ll save it for the next round of Qs