Not American but my union deduct 10 dolars from my payment every month to cover union costs. It does it with thousands. Is it too much? Yes. But everyone got 10% payment increase this year plus some benefit increases too. i'm not going to complain

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

$120 a year is too much to justify a 10% raise?

That's some bad cost benefit analysis.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Maybe the pay is so low to begin with that a ten percent raise is less than the 10 dollars in union dues a paycheck.

$520 a year isn't much though, if your first 20 minutes of work for the pay period pays your dues then you have another 39.66 hours of money that is for you and your creditors.

Edit: did bad math. Look further down comment for adjustments

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What math are you using?

They said $10 per month. You use pay period. Then you switch to weekly pay.

This highlights another reason for unionization, using people who understand accounting to determine what is a good deal for the workers.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm using "I've been up for 20 hours because I'm packing my house up to move somewhere affordable" math. I meant 79.66 hours of your own money. I read their post wrong and thought it must be 10 a paycheck because it seems so small. When I was a Teamster many years ago it was nearly 800 a year so thirty dollars a paycheck.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

<.<

Firstly, they said $10/month which would mean an hourly rate of ~$0.60 using that logic.

Secondly, even if they said per paycheck and get paid weekly, they would have to be making less than $2.50 an hour for that to make sense.

I highly doubt you’d fine a place that allows for wages that low, which also has a system in place to protect unions and workers.

[–] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not American either, and I have no idea how much I pay my union. They've made sure I had several increases in salary in addition for the yearly rise, and I get several insurances for a better price than if I were to buy them for my self.

Last year the collective raise wasn't that high, but they made sure my colleagues with lower salary than me got it instead, and I expect the same thing will happen this year.

I'm totally fine with that because that is what I voted for to happen. My salary is good enough for now, and I want to make sure others are taken care of.

[–] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

Totally, my union got us bonuses in our last negotiations. The lower your salary the higher your bonus. The only way to have it be fair at all as I see it.