@hughrawlinson at what level of management do unions generally refuse membership? I ask as someone who has been a manager in the past but at a company so large I had less input into company policy than a Financial Times oped.
@jon this was prompted by my sister (a nurse) saying someone had to as rep when they got into a basic management position, and was replaced as rep by a non member. I’m not sure how it works in the private sector, I’ve never managed to join a union (I worked in tech as an immigrant in the US and the Netherlands, where it’s hard. Should’ve done it in Sweden, but I didn’t know about unions then)
@hughrawlinson yeah, that feels like unions being stuck in the Victorian era to me. Low level managers are just as much under the boot of executives as the workers below them.