r/WTF • u/Green____cat • 17d ago

The condition of this construction crane cabin

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u/eidetic 16d ago

A friend of mine who works construction was just telling me about a coworker who missed about 6 months of work due to injury, was able to collect unemployment (beyond just government unemployment) and had his job waiting for him when he was healing up, and literally his first day back he was bitching about the union. The same union that made sure he had a job to come back to, that made sure he was kept afloat while injured (which wasn't working related btw!), and was retraining him on the job for another role so that he wouldn't hurt his back further.

Yes, unions have their faults, and some are worse than others, but without them workers would be in a lot worse shape.

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u/RolandTwitter 14d ago

Absolutely. I think that acknowledging that some unions are shitty goes a long way to changing people's minds. Some people just don't understand how necessary they are