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> that also included treating the non-union employees to more perks like company provided drinks, snacks, more breaks, better pay, and better staffing levels. In some cases our non-union warehouse employees were paid more than the union employees for the same position.

This just goes to show that unions improve working conditions and employee outcomes for everyone. If it takes fear that a union might spread to make a company treat their employees better that's still a win for unions, even if it puts unionized employees in a position where they now have to bargain for those same improvements.

The company is an origination whose goal is to extract as much out of their employees as possible for as little compensation as possible and when employees organize to prevent being exploited that way everyone wins, including the companies themselves.



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