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Stampeed Valkyrie
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| Quote: | | The voting took place from April 30 to May 21 and follows multiple rounds of layoffs and health benefit cuts at the company. |
Sounds like this company is not in a good position overall. Let's hope this unionization doesn't end up torpedoing the brand.. like Yellow Trucking.
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SinisterOracle
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2025 12:28 pm |
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Smart employees. I remember when I worked for a national retailer 20 years ago being told that if anyone approached me (or anyone) about forming a union I was to report it to the store manager immediately. Nobody ever did, but I remember wanting to know more about unions because I hadn’t heard about them before. It’s a shame more employees aren’t able to get coverage in a union.
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OtomeGay
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2025 4:41 pm |
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Glad to hear it! Is there any chance this will protect translators, editors, and letterers, by any chance? The news about Viz, Kodansha, and Yen Press teaming up with Orange, Inc. has made me nervous for them lately.
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AidanClarke
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2025 5:33 pm |
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| OtomeGay wrote: | | Glad to hear it! Is there any chance this will protect translators, editors, and letterers, by any chance? The news about Viz, Kodansha, and Yen Press teaming up with Orange, Inc. has made me nervous for them lately. |
Translators and Letterers are usually freelance, so they are not eligible for union membership. Editors are full-time employees, so they should be eligible. There are various factors within a company regarding eligibility, generally tied to management positions where someone is able thire and fire full-time employees. (Please take this with a grain of salt since I am a freelance letterer, not someone involved with unionization)
I'd sure love to be part of a union. I'd love it if lettering was something I could make a steady living off of, rather than a thing I do on weekends because I love it.
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mrsticky005
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2025 7:23 pm |
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| SinisterOracle wrote: | | Smart employees. I remember when I worked for a national retailer 20 years ago being told that if anyone approached me (or anyone) about forming a union I was to report it to the store manager immediately. Nobody ever did, but I remember wanting to know more about unions because I hadn’t heard about them before. It’s a shame more employees aren’t able to get coverage in a union. |
Sorry if this is a dumb question but what is stopping them from getting coverage in a union?
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ATastySub
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2025 8:34 pm |
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| mrsticky005 wrote: | | SinisterOracle wrote: | | Smart employees. I remember when I worked for a national retailer 20 years ago being told that if anyone approached me (or anyone) about forming a union I was to report it to the store manager immediately. Nobody ever did, but I remember wanting to know more about unions because I hadn’t heard about them before. It’s a shame more employees aren’t able to get coverage in a union. |
Sorry if this is a dumb question but what is stopping them from getting coverage in a union? |
Corporate fuckery and union busting efforts. When my workplace tried unionizing recently suddenly all the money the company couldn’t afford to pay workers was paying multitudes of to bring in anti-union specialists and firms and even creating a new VP position to get a guy whose entire job was to crack down and remove any attempts at forming a union. Once it failed, all the things we saw coming down the pipeline (mass layoffs, everyone remaining being forced to do multiple jobs, worse treatment for lower pay etc) that were promised would never happen and was only union scare-mongering immediately went into effect.
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Top Gun
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| Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2025 12:48 am |
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In a sane world any sort of anti-union activity by corporations would be flagrantly illegal but, well, here we are.
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