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<blockquote data-quote="ChicagoFire" data-source="post: 1200352" data-attributes="member: 13610">This post makes me envy people fortunate enough to be unionized. I spent most of my working years under Obama in the food industry. While the Democrats were more than happy to play identity politics and throw in some token gestures to the working class (Obama's meaningless overtime law comes to mind) they largely ignored the working class. They can blame Russia or white supremacy all they want, but did they really help the working class? As some have pointed out here yeah, there's some problems with unions but for the most part they are there to protect workers. A friend of mine told me she got fired from Whole Foods because she didn't properly call off after getting heart surgery. I was around when an older gentleman tripped over the slightly raised drain grates in our kitchen, spilling hot soup all over himself. Days later management replaced the raised grates with flatter ones. I've been told by multiple people that Whole Foods at one point brought up the concept of unions in a meeting and bashed the concept altogether. Now watch as Amazon slowly turn Whole Foods into an automized profits first business. I can list other places I've worked at where management could have been checked with a labor representative, but I think everyone gets the point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ChicagoFire, post: 1200352, member: 13610"] This post makes me envy people fortunate enough to be unionized. I spent most of my working years under Obama in the food industry. While the Democrats were more than happy to play identity politics and throw in some token gestures to the working class (Obama's meaningless overtime law comes to mind) they largely ignored the working class. They can blame Russia or white supremacy all they want, but did they really help the working class? As some have pointed out here yeah, there's some problems with unions but for the most part they are there to protect workers. A friend of mine told me she got fired from Whole Foods because she didn't properly call off after getting heart surgery. I was around when an older gentleman tripped over the slightly raised drain grates in our kitchen, spilling hot soup all over himself. Days later management replaced the raised grates with flatter ones. I've been told by multiple people that Whole Foods at one point brought up the concept of unions in a meeting and bashed the concept altogether. Now watch as Amazon slowly turn Whole Foods into an automized profits first business. I can list other places I've worked at where management could have been checked with a labor representative, but I think everyone gets the point. [/QUOTE]

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