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I don’t really like or support unions and I don’t understand the left’s slavish devotion to unions. Unions mark a failure to make local, state, and/or federal legislators do their jobs and provide the things people are turning to unions for: better pay, working conditions, paid time off, and other benefits. Everything people turn to unions for is something they should be demanding their lawmakers provide for them-but everyone long ago gave up on expecting lawmakers to do that and instead turned to the third party middle men that are unions in the hopes that bribing the unions to provide those things would work and that the unions wouldn’t eventually turn around and do the same thing lawmakers are doing-which is selling out the poor and working class and not working to provide them with better pay, working conditions, paid time off, and other benefits. I would understand the support of the unions by the left if you weren’t foaming at the mouth in hatred towards the Democrats for their failure or refusal to do what unions are failing or refusing to do. Why are you giving unions a pass when they sell out the workers who pay for the unions to exist in the first place? How many times do unions get to do that and screw workers over before you understand they’re not different enough from bought off corrupt politicians like the Democrats and Republicans to be worth supporting anymore? How can you see when Democrats sell people out, but fall all over yourself looking for excuses for why unions are actually not all that bad or at least better than not having one (a lesser of two evils argument I thought we were done with?)

I work at Kroger and our union just last week told me I can’t get a pay raise for the extra work they’re expecting everyone on my shift to do. It’s not part of our job and it wastes an average hour of every night we work and hampers our ability to get the work done while putting far more strain on our bodies than the job is supposed to. Instead of spotting products to the aisle off of pallets that are assembled for that aisle, we get a mishmash of everything on every pallet and we have to waste time breaking those pallets down and sorting them by aisle before we can spot the product to the aisle they belong in. My union rep and the person from corporate who handled the grievance both wanted to put more effort into making sure we got aisle friendly pallets instead of adding breaking down the pallets to our job description and paying us more to handle it and then a week later, I was told they weren’t moving forward with the grievance and would just talk to the warehouse to see about getting us aisle friendly pallets. Meaning, they weren’t going to do anything at all about it.

This is on top of the fact that in October 2022 when Kroger was spending $22.7 billion to merge with Albertson’s, it was telling workers with the backing of the union behind them that there was no money for raises and they sold the Kroger workers on a 3 contract that gave no raises in the first year. BECUASE I have a union here at Kroger, I am being denied higher pay, better working conditions, paid time off, and other job benefits. I even brought up that they renegotiated the contract and got produce workers a $.50 raise last year for cutting fruit in the store, so why couldn’t we get a raise to deal with the pallets. I was told that’s another union-which to me just means my union sucks, will not fight for me, and has me locked into a shitty contract with a $.30 raise coming in fucking March of this year. My first raise since starting in December 2023. Fuck unions. I hate them.