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My union dues are about 800 a year, we'd be lucky to make only 10,000 less a year without the union, and have way less protections. Joining a union is one of the best investments you can make.

Remember, if your company is telling you how great something is, it is great for them, not you.

Haha my Union Dues... 240/yr.

Pay in the five years before the union....no increase. 20 years of union, pay up 100%.

Dystopic shit.

These posters should be illegal.

Classic misdirection: compare dues to a toy instead of the extra pay, healthcare, and protections.

Delta knows their audience. Many pilots lean Republican and see themselves as rugged individualists that have made their own path. Meanwhile, the only reason they're flying in many cases are socially funded training programs. Many from the military.

It should be illegal to put up stuff like this.

Union fees are also 100% tax deductible in Australia, so it's all a win-win.

Scumbags. What the hell is this 'murkin propaganda? It's like the whole country is unironically trying to become the Sith.

This is a meme community, so it's time to get serious!

This happened around 6 or 7 years ago. The company in question only has two work groups that are unionized -- Pilots and Dispatchers. Mechanics, Flight Attendants, Ground Service, etc. are not unionized.

Flight Attendants have attempted to unionize many times, but the vote always fails.

The poster included in this post was for Ramp workers -- the people who load baggage, marshal the planes into the gate, fill the potable water, etc. That vote ultimately failed, but these posters were only a small reason why. In my opinion, the biggest reason that other work groups don't want to unionize (they absolutely can, nothing is stopping them) is profit sharing.

Years ago the pilot union negotiated an extremely excellent profit sharing agreement, and it was negotiated for pilots only. Depending on the amount of profit for the year, employees can expect 10%-%20 of their yearly income paid in a lump sum. The company in question is typically very profitable (I can already see the "profit should be illegal" type of comments coming, but please spare me. I'm just trying to explain how it works).

Over time, other work groups started to catch wind of how much profit sharing pilots were getting. Naturally this sparked talk of unionizing in other work groups, so in order to calm things down the company extended the same profit sharing to all workers, not just the pilots.

This sort of reversed the desire to unionize for a lot of people (I disagree with them, but this is their thinking)... Now if the ramp personnel do unionize, they'd have to negotiate their own profit sharing as they would be excluded from the company wide payout. That's not to say they couldn't negotiate to keep the profit sharing, but the fear is real and people don't want to lose the big fat checks that come almost every year.

In summary, the workers aren't unionized but the company pays a lot of money to them to keep it that way. Would they be better off long term if they unionized? Yes, of course. But this poster, as ridiculous as it is, is not the only reason that work groups aren't voting in unions.

Here's a link to the AFA page talking about it a little bit https://deltaafa.org/news/profit-sharing-2025

I guess Delta thinks their employees are complete fucking morons.

~~bread and~~ circuses

Two questions:

1. Is this for real?
2. Does it work?

I feel like a large company going to that kind of effort to explicitly tell me to not spend money on something would have the exact opposite effect. It’s not like they’re saying “unions are bad, actually” it just like “this thing you were going to spend money on, maybe don’t?”

Imagine a poster saying “Drugs are really expensive - you’ll get more value for money if you buy videogames” - would that work?

That’s like one month of US health insurance next year. Way more than worth it over being at the whims of some fuckhead corporation

It cost them 700, not you. You will gain from an Union

"Explain."

"Money can be exchanged for goods and services."

"Woohoo!"

The union workforce in the USA is about 10% (6% Public and 4% Private?) WTF AmeriKa!?!?

When I worked at Best buy over 10 years ago they had the exact same propaganda. You know instead of union dues you could buy an Xbox! (From us no less!)

...okay I added that last bit but it was implied

With all the layoffs right now, it's a great opportunity for unions to make people aware about them and how they can be beneficial.

I wish unions were more active on LinkedIn, so that we could like and share their posts. Recent layoffs at Omnicom/IPG have led to people discussing unions in the advertising subreddit..

Explain how.