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by dragonwriter
448 days ago
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> WFH has proven to be both popular and workable but no union effort has made it their one issue. Well, yeah, real unions tend to have more than one issue, because real workplaces tend to have more than one working condition, pay, etc., issue of concern. But it certainly has been a major issue for some unions, e.g., SEIU Local 1000, the largest union covering California state workers, which bargained for WFH terms in the current labor contract and has filed a unfair labor practice charge over the Governor's recent attempt to unilaterally change WFH conditions with a 4-day-per-week RTO order. |
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They also have other issues. My friends municipal power and water union actually fought management to remove WFH. It is composed of line workers and computer workers, with line workers being the majority. The line workers essentially thought it was unfair that computer/office workers could WFH while their work was in person, and bargained remove it from company policy.
IMO, a lot of problems arise from the way US union law is structured to favor entire workplaces or workforces. This leads to contested unionization votes to create the union, and once you have them, it creates monopoly effects and lots of internal politics.