I don’t need to know exact companies, no need to unnecessarily expose yourself or anything, but as we are a workers rights instance of Lemmy, I safely assume we are all proletarians. I for example work at a unionized grocery and I work outside. I have many complaints but I try my best to work as little as possible while getting my paycheck. Customers are usually fine but occasionally just dumb af to the point where it’s annoying(I have millions of stories) managers are very kind, only ones who were dicks left(unfortunately they probably got promoted if I remember correctly) and my coworkers are eh. Some are great to confide in and joke with, while others are rude or annoying, some are very nice but have garbage politics (libertarians who don’t understand their benefits from being in a union/don’t care enough about the differences to advocate for it). I plan on becoming a firefighter, not only for the pay, job security and union benefits, but it’s also an essential job that doesn’t exist just to create capital (no judgement to those who work in corporate environments, I’ve never done it and can’t judge it). I like my job overall but Goddamn the weather. Edit: Kinda cool to see so many people who are in tech.

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    Currently work retail. My exact job is meat clerk, which means I’m in charge of serving meat from the case and keeping the cooler wall full, then cleaning the backroom after the butchers are done. Strawpolling indicates a 9-1 lead in favour of unionizing after they’ve learned what exactly it is (which was needed in 7/10 cases). Planning to put up a bunch of posters to raise awareness, but can’t find any good ones (and I’m not really a graphic designer, although I might have to pretend).

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      Awesome! I also work retail and I’m unionized, all the best to you and your coworkers in your effort to unionize! And good work on planning to put up posters, I think it will make a difference!

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          Very good question, I’ll check at work, but frankly I’d be surprised if the posters don’t have our union’s logo and local # written on it (ex. local ABC 123 branch) which you probably wouldn’t use, but if I see anything around I’d be glad to send a PM of whatever I find👍

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      I understand talking to coworkers, but does putting up posters not endanger your job? Surely they’ll be able to find out who did it and fire you for “unrelated” reasons. That being said I’m totally for it, good for you man.

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        They might. I have been rather active about talking about it, after all. But the posters are not going to be personalized (the email on them is one I created just for this purpose). And besides, this is Canada - we don’t often fire people for unionizing.

        That said, I’m not too attached to this job.