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Currently working 35 hours a week, in a unionized job with banked time starting at 36h (1:1), (2:1 at 40+ hrs), 4 weeks vacation & unlimited sick days up to a point(6 per year I hear...), meaning I can take a day off whenever I'm too tired/sick. Due to the negotiated conditions, it's also really not advantageous for the employer to force us to be on call or have us do any amount of OT. Thus the workload is really stable. In a way I now have too much free time. It's been a bliss overall on my work/life balance. I've never been that healthy and my stress level has never been so low in my life. I know I'll live longer and once I am more stable financially, I'll be able to have time to contribute to my community. The salaries are also quite good. I highly encourage people to unionize, it is the only way to get proper leverage in this highly inequitable period we live in. The union we have is small and consists exclusively of people with at minimum university degrees. Most of them have some form of life accomplishments due to the hiring process also. Due to the conditions negotiated, the well provisioned pension fund and general job advantages, most people coming in are experienced (5+ years) except for some amount of diversity/equity hires (which the company kinda needed since everyone stays there until retirement...). Thus, the union is well organized to have leverage, well structured and reasonable with whom they should defend when there is abuse on the side of the employer. People are mostly diligent in their work obligations. There is some rare exceptions, some employees with too much mastery of transferring issues to others. Frankly, I've seen the same or worst in Big Corpo, mostly in middle management, the only difference here is some employees do it instead of the managers... |