Concerning Video of Mercedes CEO Leaks
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- Опубликовано: 3 апр 2024
- Leaked videos show Mercedes-Benz's CEO and management flagrantly union-busting at their plant in Alabama.
"For the people that want the union, I'm the enemy," one manager says.
Mercedes tried to make workers afraid. Instead, they're filing for a historic union.
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"We're a family" is such a line of bullshit coming from a company. If any manager tries to say that shit, find another job. That's code for "we want to take advantage of you".
Yeah, sure, go ask a Walmart employee about "family!" 😂
They only said they were a family. They never said it was a functional family.
It's the same set of lies that EVERY corporation uses in their "captive audience" meetings. 🙄
Family.... none of these managers came over for Christmas.
@@frankgrabasse4642 they came to my house... but they didn't bring a dish and they complained about the choice of pies - didn't stop them from taking a slice of both, either.
"If you unionize I can't allow you to go on a restroom break."
Jfc, how low can you stoop with these RIDICULOUS threats/claims?? 😤😤🤢🤢
Just look at Trump claims and you can see what cool aid deplorables drink... Like how the enemy is poor people paid 5$/h to work in field or the deep state and not their boss remote working for 8 millions per hours...
Another funny cool aid is how some pundit attrribute corporate greed to how pension fund required high return to pay for retiree...
I heard that the average use of cable TV is above 40 hours a week... And that Fox is still number one...
It's also illegal.
It isn't the first company to make those type of negative union membership statements. They even go so far as to imply that those who singed union cards were too stupid to realize what they were doing...that they were tricked into signing thinking it was for "bonus" money.
@@marcdunivan2436 truly disgusting 😣
@@dvdv8197 It is even more disgusting when those same people turn around and spend millions of dollars at the local community as charity to help the under-privileged...instead of paying a decent, respectable, living wage to their employees.
Every employee in the us needs a union. You cannot trust these executives to care about the average person anymore.
Any more? Lol
@@SeanPorterPDX yes
Never could. They've only ever cared about profits and making money for themselves.
I've felt the same since day 1. Everyone that works from someone else needs to be in a union.
The result is Chernobyl.
Let me fill you in on how unions work. You as a union worker can ask your union for the financial statements and they have to show you. I’m the financial secretary and training coordinator in a union and what they are saying about unions is bull shit.
Exactly. In our union meetings we see the books every time and know where the money goes.
Unions are protected against fraud through the Union Pension Act of 1974. Try to get that protection with a 401k
@@DiscoDickJones exactly. Me being the financial secretary I’m the one that gets to do that. Unions are non profits. We have to obey and adhere to many laws. In some cases more than the companies that we represent.
Only 10% of private sector jobs are unionized.
You are " family" till they lay you off !
"You have no transparency where that money is used."
"Hey Mr. CEO, will you show us the company's books, then?"
"NO. You're fired."
more like "uh okay" and then shows cooked books
@@asuka_the_void_witch publicly listed companies do this every 3 months. 🤣
@@marcdunivan2436yeah, and it’s pretty obvious that some people are making undeserved money at the expense of all the workers that actually work. Maybe, they should stop stealing other people’s money
@@marcdunivan2436 yes
You realize that public companies statements are all public?
If anyone doesn’t believe in unions, tell them this blatantly obvious red flag :
Corporations work on a profit maximizing schedule. In other words, every decision is made with the intention of increasing profit. Now consider the fact that union busting is a multi million (billion?) dollar industry. This means that for a company, spending millions on breaking up a union is MORE profitable than letting the union continue. Unions are so effective at redistributing profits that a company is willing to spend millions to not let it happen. Let that sink in
@stevencats7137 such a great point
Yes, corporations will only do the ethical thing if the consequences are more expensive than simply being ethical. Late-stage capitalism has annihilated our culture’s moral values
Management is more interested in automation today than union busting.
@@rrmackaynice made up fact that has no material backing at all.
I've worked Union and non Union jobs. Unfortunately some Union contracts protect the lazy. There are employers in this Country I would not have worked for without a Union. Other's I wished they had them. There's good and bad Unions. It's all about finding a balance.
"I'm the enemy" Yes Management, you are! Thanks for making it clear.
The average unionized German Mercedes workers make 50% more money ($68,000) than non-unionized American Mercedes workers ($46,000).
dont forget that they also get automatic full healthcare coverage (in fact its required by law as part of employment), pensions, protections from termination, work safety protections, 30 days of paid vacation each year, effectively unlimited paid sick leave (technically there are limitations, but those mostly concern long term illness and are partially covered) and most likely automatic raises to counter inflation (most likely, because i expect thats whats part of their typical contracts after union negotiations) without having to personally negotiate their contract every year
Because workers don't know how to negotiate their own salary.
Its not that the union is negotiating for the workers because they can't do for themselves, its just easier to let the union have the uncomfortable conversations. I have never been a union member, have negotiated my salary my entire career and have made 6 figures for decades.
German here. We also pay a lot of taxes (at 68k it is 42% taxes), have very very high rental and now energy costs. Don’t forget that the US is very different to Germany. A German Mercedes worker is definitely not living the life here (compared to 50k in the US). The numbers are also inflated because the R&D is here.
@@dinoscheidt compared to the US rental costs, the german rental market is a paradise... we have some pretty damn solid protections on that
energy costs are in fact relatively high tho (especially lately)
also those 42% only apply at that income for singles and even then only barely
You are not seriously saying this, are you?!
If you can afford a Mercedes, you can most certainly afford a car made by unionized and respected workers.
It’s already insanely overpriced the difference is that extra cash goes directly to the shareholders now a union will split that profit better not necessarily change the price
I prefer my Honda.
The quality of Mercedes is going downhill. I worked at Mercedes in Germany and was extremely disappointed by the quality up to the point I left Mercedes. I didn't want anything to do with it.
Even most older employees that always had a Mercedes drove other brands now and would never buy a Mercedes again!
Let that sink in.......
@@koyaanisqatsi316 Let that anecdote from some random person ...sink in.......
"We're a family" always makes me wonder if they're that abusive towards their families, or if management thinks that workers have such horrible home lives?
It’s a ruse; they use “community” language to disguise the clear intended hierarchy.
I still remember a mass layoff back in the 90's where our supervisor said "we're family, we're going to help you until you get a new job"... six days later I had an interview and put her down as a reference. I found out in my followup interview that she told the hiring manager at the company I had applied to "I have no idea who that person is." She had been my direct supervisor for six years. NEVER believe the "family" lie!
They often are, unfortunately
That is the latest psychobabble sold to the masters students at universities.
Its really that academics are so clueless about the average person that they think it sounds good.
They're only connection to the word family is "domestic abuse".
If I was late to dinner a few times, my "family" wouldn't disown me after the 3rd time. My "family" wouldn't fire me if I had a severe illness or injury that kept me from work for a few weeks.
Two workers are sitting at a table with a dozen cookies. The boss walks in and takes 11, then turns to one worker and says, "Watch it, that union guy's gonna take your cookie".
1 farmer has 10 eggs. The Marxist is lazy and has no eggs. The Marxist joins a union and steals the farmers eggs and murders the farmer and his family. Now there are no more eggs.
❗️
Exactly what happened in the USSR, China, Cuba, and Venezuela.
Actually, there are 12 cookies, and you have to give 6 to the union, fire one of the guys so the other can have the other 6...
@@FJB2020corporate shill spotted
UNIONIZE YOUR WORKPLACE NO MATTER THE WORK!
No thanks. Keep that for yourself.
Always did good with my right to work. I make 500k a year now.
No. I'm in a right to work state. Say no to unions just like you would say no to drugs.
I agree to a point if you and other employees are being treated unfairly/unsafe by a tyrannical employer by all means unionize. If however ur being fairly compensated why would you need a union? I’ve seen the good unions have done and seen the laziness they can breed u must keep a good attitude and be a hard worker tht is all ur choice pro union or not.
Negotiate your own salary regardless of the work.
being a union lemming is guarantee to lower wages, especially in a high inflation environment.
As an example the union contract will refer to inflation and probably use government numbers of 2%, inflation is currently 5%, the longer the contract term the more you are losing.
As a UAW worker, all of the shit Mercedes was saying, is almost the exact opposite of the truth.
For real. I was a former union member and it is truly far from the truth.
I think the union, in the past, had failed to live up to its promises because of poor leadership. But that is over now. Fain is the man!
@@justamaninTN I worked in the UAW for 5 years and then gone into a white collared profession. All of my peers from the UAW plant make substantially more than me now and don’t have a degree. You have many protections in the plant that protect me everyone instead of a select few. I think it’s something that is still needed because companies nor the government cares about us.
@@Damedahall 100% agree. We have gone way past the tipping point as a nation and it’s absolutely needed. I was never UAW. I’m a white collar worker in the industry. But I’ve worked in a UAW plant and it is my opinion that management has way too much power and gets paid way too much, all at the expense of the workers. That is what I saw. I saw some good managers, but I saw many who got ridiculous pay for very little work while paying people poverty wages. This is not the kind of economy I want to encourage or be a part of. I don’t want an economic caste system in this country and that is where we are heading.
Lack of unions is why the south is so damn poor. How dare these workers ask for a fair days pay for a fair days work.
It makes sense. The main reason black ppl fled the south was FOR JOBS the racism was secondary
Florida and Texas are the 2rd and 3rd largest economies. NEW York and California have drugs, homeless, and gender dysphoria. Who are you calling poor?
You apparently haven't been to Pasco, Nebraska Ave in Tampa, or just the old places like Gadsden Co. Hell, check out the panhandle. They should have just give that to Alabamastan.
@@doogandoggin2571 The only thing the Bolshevics are good at is spreading misery.
@@francismarion6400seriously? Putting in gender where it doesn’t belong.
Get help, incel.
Let's go, Alabama! Corporations are not your friend. Vote accordingly.
Workers unite nationwide! All fields! All positions! Labor is what the wealthy need. Make them pay top dollar for it!
In case you haven't noticed, Biden has flooded America with cheap illegal labor.
Why would I hire an American worker when I can hire Peppe at $18.50 an hour?
an mechanic apprentic in gemany will earn 4 to 8 € while the minimum pay is 14€ an hour .
its the lobbying and the people you vote for ....
@@GardenofEdens Why would you pay an apprentice money if they don't know anything?
In 20 years, 80% of labor jobs will be non existent and run by robots and Ai 😂
@@squibbelsmcjohnsonIf that happens then most of the world will have no choice but to start issuing universal basic incomes.
No other Western country makes it so difficult to unionize like America does.
It’s the freedom loving thing. We also pay far less in taxes, make more money, have more cars and larger homes, with cheaper food.
You get mediocre healthcare.
Ok, so what happens when union labor increases cost of goods and manufacturing moves?
@@youtubesucks1499 it moves somewhere else, and then gets ruined by unions there, and then moves somewhere else to be ruined by unions again
@@youtubesucks1499Your CEO doesn't get the bigger yacht
I'm glad. Screw unions! If you want a financially sustainable way to run unions, the Japanese method where the company owns and controls the union is the only sensible option.
In solidarity with all Workers!! 🎉❤🔥🔥
Against all oligarchs and kleptokrats!
Ok, so how's it working out for the 12,000 UPS workers that are getting laid off at a record union contract?
Lmaoo
@@youtubesucks1499 How does the corporate boot taste, slave?
@@youtubesucks1499 which is a common tactic in the union busting playbook. Conducting layoffs and mass firings amidst organization is a heinous but effective tactic. But labor has to soldier on. Plus, the UPS workers may have a good wrongful termination case.
@@me0101001000 No they don't. Lol.
Look around, businesses are closing and mass layoffs. UPS is no different.
They laid off 12,000 workers due to restructuring, right around the union contract. Perfectly legal.
UPS has a rock solid legal department that made sure it was legal.
Oops.
Opponents of unionization will always frame it as a moral argument: "You got fired? Shouldn't have organized then."
But organizing and collective bargaining is simply using the same cold business logic that the company uses on their own workers. The company does not care about the worker as long as they get more than their money's worth out of the worker, so those of us who don't own companies ought not care about the company as long as they follow the law and pay a livable wage.
At-will employment and "right to work" laws exist because companies want to bust unions with impunity, pure and simple.
Business should always be negotiated in a cold emotionless fashion, its about money not feelings.
I have never been a union member, always worked in a right-to-work state and have made double typical union wages for at least 20 years. I always negotiate my own salary and I use a strategy of describing to the employer how much revenue will be generated by employing me.
No excuses.
Its foolish to think that right-to-work only serves the business, in a non-RTW-state I would have to sign non-competes that prevent me from moving on. Instead I always keep my options open.
@@rrmackayforcing humans to be emotionless robots is one of the tricks. You must lobotomize yourself and use endless layers of doublespeak and hidden meaning to function. You can still be forced to sign non competes in right to work states to get a job.
Walmart has been doing this for at least 13 years. I got hired with them about that long ago and literally day one training we had somebody come in and tell us how to handle somebody approaching us about joining the union, and the wording was designed to make you think these people are the devil lol.
My great grandfather and grandfather BOTH helped formed the first unions in this country. My grandfather was the co-founder of the very 1st plumbers and steamfitters union in Alabama. I'm happy to see the people in our state making a stand, I wish you guys all the best!
I just left Mercedes in alabama. It is a tremendously evil place where people are treated like subhumans for a lower middle class income.
A few oligarchs shouldn’t own and control the means of production, distribution and exchange. Workers make the world run, workers should run the world.💙🏴🇨🇦
You breath with your mouth open.
@@jarrettesselman8144you are a little baby
Ok, so why don't the workers start a co-op?
If you tried to seize the means of production the following will occur:
The companies would be gutted and the stocks would be worthless. So you get a bankrupt company with no real value.
So why not start a co-op? Its employee owned.
I mean you have to develop a product or service, raise capital, and work 100 hours a week to build a business.
I think employees should open co-ops. They won't. Its unbelievably hard.
You seize the bankrupt gutted corporations.
😂🤣🤣😂👍👍👍
@@lylemata6672 A little baby wants a business they didn't start or own.
@youtubesucks1499 yep, just taking what I'm owed
The irony of the ceo saying that unions are the ones who are not transparent is just perfect.
This is flat out illegal. They need to file a Labor Board complaint.
Labor Board can't do much without an extravagant amount of evidence. The answer is to unionise FIRST
It is, however there really aren't any serious repercussions for union busting tactics for a company.
remember all, if a corporation is trying this hard to stop you from doing something, know what you want to do is good for you and bad for them. Its that simple 😄
Thats business, it all about making the best deal they/you can.
Why do you think all these companies opened factories in the South?
Because the Southern overclass has for at least the last 100 years been trying to associate unions with not being a "good" Southerner.
They opened factories in the south because there was less competition for workers and a lower operating cost. Its about the numbers not about feelings.
@@rrmackay I wonder if the rampant corruption that leads to less taxes, regulations and unions has anything to do with that operating cost hmmmmmm
You are right, it's about numbers not feelings. Nothing a Republican't ignores quicker than numbers for their feelings after all.
QUITE LITERALLY the reason was to avoid Detroits unions. And it helped that unemployment was high, people were poor and power was the cheapest in the US because of the huge coal reserves there. There's documentaries on this. Hyundai, Kia, Toyota, Mercedes and probably a WHOLE TON more are all generally in the Kentucky Alabama region.
@@ZoeyEldritchthere's actual documentaries on this. High unemployment, low wages, no existing auto union presence, and the cheapest electricity in the US because of huge fial deposits were THE REASON Toyota and then A PILE of others set up factories there and if you look they're all within a 200 mile radius. Toyota, Mercedes, Hyundai, Kia, probably a whole bunch of others I can't even remember all in Kentucky and Alabama.
"I'm talkin' to y'all as your friend..."
And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.
the bridge comes from Baltimore and "some assembly required" but its a really good price.
Together, we negotiate. Separately, we beg.
No, separately you still negotiate unless you are a rube.
@@rrmackay you are a rube for saying that, if you don't see the difference of those two... is in their outcome.
@@nescius2 Begging is a choice made by people with no self respect. Negotiating is what adults do.
@@rrmackay Negotiating requires strength, or you find yourself begging..
i wonder if you are _trying_ to not understand...
@@nescius2 Negotiating requires self respect not strength. You have to have the personal self worth to walk away. You are not trapped, you are not forced to work for anyone, you always have a choice and saying No is where it starts. I am trying to help you understand that its a choice nothing more.
Big Respect to the people on the video trying to bargain collectively
I just joined a job that has a union. I was immediately bumped up to just under 30 an hour from a job that only pays 20. I realize union dues are taken out of my paycheck, but most of that money is used to pay for our superior Healthcare/benefits package. How is that any different from the company taking it out of your paycheck for significantly less coverage?
Mercedes, you made a mistake in fighting with UAW. NOT GOING TO END WELL... Unions are worth their weight in gold. ❤🎉
UAW is a complete trash organization.
Unless they reach a point where the union makes the factory unprofitable, then they will simple close it.
They can always just ship the jobs back to Germany or move the factory to Mexico. The UAW has a history of striking its way out of a job and into the unemployment line.
I’ve been in unions, GO UNIONS!
Greed is the ONLY reason the corporations don’t want you to unionize.
Unions improve things, corporations just want workers to shut up and be happy you have a job.
GO UNIONS!
No matter how much they exploit you…
A german CEO saying he doesnt want a union? Tell that to all the German union workers. What hypocracy.
Nah, it’s not hypocrisy. It’s a reflection of different positions of strength in different national contexts.
But yes, the German unions should be aware of this and do what they can to help their brothers and sisters in Alabama.
@@mattiashakansson2865 DT's union (not DT) was supportive of T-Mobile (US) employees efforts to unionize. T-Mobiles anti union efforts were too strong and the vote was lost by small margins. It takes a lot to succeed I applaud the UAW and Mercedes workers efforts).
@@mattiashakansson2865Germany has unions for ALMOST EVERY company with over 200 people.
Germany has unions for almost EVERY company with over 200 people
German workers are much more productive and basically earn their higher pay. These guys want German pay scales but with lower output productivity. Not going to happen. Mercedes will just send the jobs back to Germany or shift production to Mexico.
My mom and her fellow workers at PetSmart could use the help to get unionized. They had a chat room talking to each other and finding out a lot of bad things going on and the next day my mom went on there, it had been completely WIPED. And my mom works at one of the Alabama PetSmart stores.
Unions cost you your job. Find out
@@cjr1881you’re a weirdo 🤣
Hell, I used to work part-time for Safeway in Oregon 17 years ago and I had to join the UFCW union in order to keep a job The company would not let me work full-time or be paid better. So I left the company, moved to a right-to-work state and is being paid much better at a non-union workplace.
Dollar general is terrible apparently
If it was a company app then it was a mistake to discuss unionizing on it. Better to use a private signal group chat
Stand strong, don’t believe company propaganda and don’t cave into fear… vote Union YES!
Engineers are not treated "well", they might just not be treated as badly, but they are still considered by management as an other resource to use/abuse as much as possible. The interest of all workers is one, either blue or white collar, the fight is one.
As an engineer in automotive, I agree lol. We are paid more than the workers on the line, obviously. But management still makes us work more than 40 hours and we get no overtime because we’re salary. They also never backfill positions. They just dump the workload of the vacant position onto everyone that’s still there.
As a test engineer for automotive antennas at a tier 1. This is, without a doubt, 100% correct. I wish there was a strong engineering union.
The workers on the line make money for every hour they work, *we dont*
@@user-oj7uc8tw9r I have heard that test engineers are particularly badly treated, is that your experience aswell? Do you colleagues feel the same? Have you ever talked to them about unionizing?
@@user-oj7uc8tw9r If there was an engineering union you would make less money. I have been in an engineering role for 30+ years and always make over 6 figures. Overtime happens because the job is about completing the work not just putting in hours. If you are so unhappy about not being paid overtime then go back to hourly work.
Pretty much any skill job gets trashed on and underpaid relative to what they deliver and earn the company. I’m a software engineer which helps earn hundreds of millions for a company and save several millions and see none of that.
Last I checked didn't the labor board pass a FEDERAL law stating ANY company engaging in these behaviors AUTOMATICALLY gets the union and they MUST start negotiating with the Union? As long as it is reported to the Labor Board. So why is this not being enforced?
If it’s so bad for the worker, why are they pumping so much money into preventing it… unless the company makes more money from non-union workers
For the union makes us strong. Solidarity forever.
No, they will drive manufacturing overseas.
If my employees tried to unionize, I would retire and close my doors and liquidate my company.
@@youtubesucks1499 lol they already tried the overseas approach. That's why there trying to bring manufacturing back to America. Because they used illegal immigration and sent manufacturing jobs overseas to break American unions. They were successful for the last 43 years. especially in the late 70s !
Obviously you heard nothing of 43 years 1980-2023 of Reaganomics Republican and moderate democrats failed tax break giveaways to the richest 1% and corporate America over 32 tillion dollars plus two corporate America taxpayer baiouts. At the expense of American infrastructure rebuilding blue collar middle class workers and the working class poor. Federal Minimum wage over this 43year 1980-2023 period only 7.25hr. Too much corporate greed Over employees for profits
@@youtubesucks1499 You would need to do what you need to do LOL ! 😆
@@youtubesucks1499 We already have the country been there done that 43 years 1980-2023 of Reaganomics was what you speak was all about ! They hired illegal immigrants sent American manufacturing jobs overseas Pretty much destroying unions in the late 70s Now they won't manufacturing jobs back in America so what are you talking about ??
@@robertpendergrass7996 Sure, because they brought the illegals to work in America. Lol.
Ford is getting ready to move manufacturing overseas because of unions.
Tyson is firing American workers to hire illegals at $18.50 an hour. Lol.
Why would any company manufacture in the United States if it's more profitable to manufacture overseas?
Tax incentives and cheap foreign labor will bring manufacturing back....
My sister was in a union and she would tell me stuff that her boss and other management people would tell her that she had to do this or that. She knew it wasn't true. She would go to her union rep. Her union rep handled it quickly and they never bother her again.
I worked at a company when they heard someone talked about forming a union. They would tell us in management to let them know if we hear someone discuss it on the floor or breakroom. I never did because I was "Pro Union" but I did tell these workers to becareful because others will turn them in. This was in a "right to work" state. They would fire them.
It was nearly impossible to prove that they were fired due to discussing forming a union.
Just to let you know, the entire US is 'employment at will'. You may have it confused with 'right to work' state.
@@shelbynamels7948 Thank you, I will correct.
Stand strong to bring in your union! I’m a member of the Michigan nurses association and without our union I wouldn’t have health insurance or the wage I have today without them!♥️
Workers of the world unite! International solidarity ❤
Solidarity for everyone! Unions are the only answer to corporate greed.
Alabama must have some crazy laws…My understanding is employers aren’t allowed to say one word to employees in terms of naysaying unions
Many state legislators and judges are likely getting kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions in exchange for tax breaks and "less regulation", meaning "less enforcement of labor laws." At least the NLRB isn't on their side, for now.
They don't have to say anything.
UPS got a record union contract and 12k employees were laid off.
Unions, helping with unemployment.
@@youtubesucks1499 not one union member was laid off
@@hhsbucs69 The company is also eliminating thousands of jobs performed by members of the Teamsters union by slashing shifts at its warehouses and hubs.
They were absolutely unions jobs. Lol.
😂🤣🤣😂
So it’s lose lose for employees regardless. I guess no reason to rise up.
this is absolutely atrocious. This is exactly what happened to me at my first job, it didn't change until a union member randomly visited and we all had a conversation with her. We ended up finding out that we're all entitled to 30 cent raises. the reason management was demonizing the union is because they didn't want us to find out. I'm glad these folks are standing up for themselves. it will make a big difference.
I can tell you first hand your life will be better if you work for a company that is unionized . The enemy is management. Union 💪🏻
I think it's about time that UAW went nationwide, unionizing ALL of the auto plants in the US.
The on the floor anti union announcements were dystopian. That would not fly in any European country - which are ironically are becoming more and more anti union.
Nothing in America gets done without making a fuss. Make a fuss!
I'm side eyeing any company that says "we're a family". My family is at home.
Tantrums. I see grown adults throwing tantrums over possibly losing power to their serfs. I mean employees.
Company: The uinion could loose you your pay and benefits
Me: What pay and benefits?
Wow! reading everyone's comments. I'm humbled by the support from each and everyone. We are fighting and will not back down to unionize.
CEOs call you family while pissing in your face and expect you to believe it's raining.
Watching this brought tears to my eyes! I work my ass off in that plant and still living paycheck to paycheck.
One of the best places I ever worked had a union. Kuhlman Electric in Versailles, KY. Shortly after I quit there (personal reasons), Kuhlman was bought out by a company in Mississippi, I believe, and they moved operations there. In our union:
* huge job board with positions open, anyone could bid for the job, and it was mostly based on seniority.
* everyone treated equally
* great transparency in benefits and payrate, and you knew exactly what you were paying in union dues
* family-friendly blue collar environment
4:42 your "value" to the company is magnified immensely by your numbers. This is where your strength lies. Individually, you have zero impact. The companies you all work for know this.
Terrible how Corporations try to impose an idea over their workers! If workers want Union they are grown people tha know what is better for them. Right?
We’re a family… 😬🚩🚩🚩
Standing in solidarity with all these hard workers and their future is our future!
States with the most anti-union oligarchs attract manufacturing from predatory corporations. The state laws in the South work against most workers. They even had a cultural shift to "be your own boss" as contractors so company owners could reduce their tax burdens (and place them onto workers). As a "contractor" in Alabama you're still an employee. You're told where to be, when to be there, and how to perform tasks with company equipment. The judiciary and regulators let that slide without investigation. There are no workplace investigations in Alabama. That's like having criminal laws without police or lawyers.
Look at where the biggest manufacturing facilities are. They are throughout the "Right to Work" states. Corporations study each city and evaluate them for workforce availability and vulnerability.
What is the alternative?? There is no manufacturing done in New York State as the taxes and regulations are overly burdensome and unions are empowered to shut down production whenever their demands are not met.
Vote blue to protect workers and unions.
That doesn't make sense. Blue has been cutting workers and not supporting Unions for decades now.
Remember the railroad strike that was shut down by Biden? Neither party really protects unions.
solidarity ✊
Solidarity ✊🏼
Crazy thing is IN GERMANY almost EVERY COMPANY THAT EXISTS that's over a few hundred employees has a union.
Ya'll need to come to Colonial Williamsburg who's union representation has been under threat for 8 years, a strike through the pandemic and still the Foundation works with Crescent Hotels who hasn't been able to rejuvenate the staffing after the pandemic when the population in the area has tripled.
I love how the CEO tries to appeal to “unlimited control and unaccountability” to smear unions… projecting much? 😂
You know you're on the right track when corporate is this concerned.
Simple, if unions weren't a threat to emoloyers they wouldn't work so hard to prevent unions being established 💪
As soon as you hear a corporation saying "we're a family", if you had any doubt before, now you know its time to unionize.
Ill believe "we are family" when we are all on vacation together on the family yacht.
and you get to fly on the family plane.
In Germany the CEO wouldn't even dare to say something like this, in fear of the IG Metall union, which represents a large part of all German industrial workers.
Very good
The Mercedes the CEO took home 12.7 million euros ($13.9 million) last year, an 80% increase from the previous year; y'all are making that too, right?
That's following the US model. German CEOs traditionally didn't make that kind of money.
Seems tho these kinds of practices only travel one way. German workers rights don't make it across the pond.
File a complaint with the U.S. Federal Labor Relations Authority.
Don't stop you will succeed !
There's a shocking amount of ani-union astroturfing going on in the comments section here. Goes to show the impact this channel has on improving worker lives if these large corporations feel threatened enough to start astroturfing in the comments section.
If they said any of this crap in Germany the CEO would have had to resign, there would be criminal prosecutions, fines and a big payout to employees
I love how they bring up Starbucks not signing a contract with their union workers and apparently neglect to mention that that is _completely illegal_ 🙄
Go, workers!!!! ❤
Funny how Mercedes is capable of working with a union in yheir home country but when it comes to yo americans they just Union bust as hard as they can, must be the water
If unions were not beneficial to workers, companies wouldn’t be fighting so hard against them.
"We're a family" is an abuser line. A real family doesn't make you beg for decent treatment and compensation
So with all this evidence, the company has been unionized by default, right?? 😊😊
I was in a Union at UPS. I got hired for $17/hr and got a $1 raise for 3 years every year. But what did the workers who were already there get? Nothing. I was making more money than people who had been there for 4-9 years.... So yea the union helped me, but it pissed about 50% of the workers off to where they quit or worked insanely slow.
Don't forget to show your new union contract to the FedEx and the Amazon guys.
Salute to the Alabama workers sticking together
the only thing you have to lose are your shackles
Thank you “More Perfect Union” for making these videos, giving people such valuable information, coverage and hope, for genuinely caring about people and for making the world a bit better.
Showing such hard working, honest people and letting them tell their stories allows us all to see their struggles, and their fortitude to band together to push for a better life.
If we could connect people like this everywhere, we may all just have a chance for a better world.
It's hilarious when corporations try to tell workers that they're all 'a family'. It's an incredible crock. Publically traded companies are LEGALLY BOUND to produce as much value for the shareholders as possible. Workers do not come into that equation, anywhere. If mistreating and underpaying workers is profitable, they not only WILL do it, they technically HAVE to do it. This is why unions are so necessary. Only with a union can you threaten those profits, put your foot down and say, 'no, we are not going to be mistreated and underpaid'.
I WAS UNION IN AFL-CIO AND CARRIED SEVERAL FULL BOOKS OR CARD CARRIER .... WHEN I RETIRED 10 YEARS AGO I WAS TOLD THEY BE THERE BACK IN 2000 ... WHILE I AM STILL WAITING AND NOT ONE DIME
Unions are famous for 'cancelling' bathroom use.
Right?
I can tell you as a union member never trust the company. The company does not give a fuk about you if you die on the job they will replace you the next day. Where is that family
"we're a family" is a red flag
I worked at one of the mercedes suppliers and I can tell you that the company I worked for had us do an anti union "training" session where they lied to us for 3 hours straight. The turnover rate is extremely high at these plants, including Mercedes itself. I think the workers at Mercedes are afraid to unionize. They fear that Mercedes will retaliate against them. I worry that the people in these videos will also lose their jobs randomly for no good reason. The state won't do anything about it because it's a "right to work" state, aka right to quit/fire.
Lol having bathroom breaks will change with the Union…
To those who complain about the fees, yes, you pay dues. But what do you get for those dues? On average about 3-4 dollars an hour over a non union job. Doesnt sound like a whole lot, but over a year with 5 day/8 hour workweeks it adds up to about 5 to 10 thousand dollars more with benefits as well. You can also fight for better work conditions with hundreds of voices instead of one. $500 a year sounds pretty cheap for all of that...
No you get 4 dollars plus free healthcare and sometimes a pension. It is a LOT
@@nicholasapodaca9886Which local were you in?
I like how the company says you do not know how your dues are spent, attend your Union meetings and you will find out.
Also what Company shows how the money you make for them is spent?
How much is your Management Salaries and Bonuses.
Vote Union Yes!
The CEO receives more money if he pays the workers less. He's not on your side.
They'd never get away with this in Germany