I belong to a labor union called IATSE.
Last year was my 25th year of membership.
I currently work for our local.
Georgia is a right to work state.
There is a joke among our crews that people who don't participate in unions in a right to work state have the right to work, for less.
In truth, they benefit from the rates and conditioned through collective bargaining, because the union will make sure that non-members are paid the same as our members. There's a spur conversation from this, but for now I'm moving on.
Turtle, the reason that many people can "get comparable pay" is because of sacrifices over the decades by people like your relative.
I can go fetch you a list of benefits that are now common and expected in the workplace, but were borne from advocacy by union members many years ago.
I was raised to be conservative and still have an instinctive view of unions as a place where innovation goes to die, and graft comes to stay.
However, in my actual experience, our union has established base wages for people who would have otherwise been played off of each other in a race to the bottom.
Hit my sleepy limit for tonight.
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