Unions

As an employer, we have an obligation to our employees (particularly full-time employees) to pay them appropriately for their work and loyalty to the business, including healthcare, opportunities for growth, education, and a healthy environment to come to every day.

There are a few organizations, run and owned by extremely wealthy individuals who have built incredible businesses but have treated their employees like shit. I don’t get it, and I am sure I never will because I don’t operate that way. I have always believed that if you do the right thing, there is no need for a union. Unions are meant to represent employees who have been treated poorly and need an organization to advocate for them and their peers. That makes sense.

Starbucks has treated its employees like shit and is now attempting to fight off the unions? Same at Amazon. How about Telluride, where the owner of the ski resort doesn’t want to pay the workers a fair minimum wage, so he closed down the resort. I honestly don’t know how these founders and CEOs sleep at night.

We can look at history, because this happened in the 70’s too—large corporations that took advantage of working people. It is in the air, and perhaps I can hang some type of optimism on Mamdani who appears to care about the people.

As for the unions, there is a place for them, not in every organization, but in those that do not take care of their workers. I am pro-labor, but I am not always pro-union. These are very different things, as for Starbucks, Amazon, and Telluride, they are obviously not pro-labor, and shame, shame on them.