This may sound anti union, but my experiece with them is they will lie to you like the company. Keep you in the dark as long as they can. Not take your phone call when you call the local. Let stupid letters stick, and push "the best contract" down your throat until you puke.
They will give 10% of your pay back to the company, "like our vote was going to count anyway." They will basically let the company do what ever it wants, just like a non union company.
The best they will let the company stop paying your pension, and you do not even get a vote. Not much for 53.00 or so a month.
Another thing is you can go down to your local, and BUY, a nice SHINY Jacket, with your name on it and a set of doubles on the back.
The positive, if you are a **** off, miss alot of time, are a lazy worker, and do alot of stupid things, then the union will stick by you, and you will have a job for life.
If you are not one of those guys, watch your back, get ready to be lied to. Get ready to work with a bunch of cry babies, that are worst than women with PMS.Yeah the whole seniority thing good luck with that.
Seniority only means something when you have 30 yrs and you think everyone owes you something. Go ask the senior men on layoff, how good seniority is, when junior men are working and they are on layoff. Its GREAT.
Teenage girls stick together better, than a buch or BIG BAD TEAMSTERS.
If this sounds like something good for you go for it.
I will get some flack for this post. But it really is very close to the TRUTH.
The union will sell you out as quick as the company. "In my experience".
Their will be guys who tell you how great it is, one thing they are probably still working and have enough seniority, for all that has happened to not be affected, by an COO.
I wonder how great it would be for them, if they moved their who family, sold their house and went down to their new terminal , just to be laid off. GOOOOO UNION:puke::eck15: