Are you in a union?

[kyc0705]

I can't imagine too many posters are, as many are still in school and thus don't have steady employment to begin with, but I was just wondering.

[Donerail]

No, but I am a member of United Students Against Sweatshops, which is formally affiliated with the AFL-CIO as an "allied organization." Our local mostly works on solidarity campaigns with campus workers. Around ~25% of members go on to union staff positions.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Oddly enuf, I'm a member of three different credit unions.  (I mention that only because I was told how a former employer of mine was at one time against having the employees have access to a credit union because of confusion between that and a labor union.)

[Grassroots]

Work as a bricklayer/mason (summer and after-school (I'm in college)), affiliated with the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers.

This was also my fathers job, and basically the main reason why I'm a maverick from my party on the Union issue.

[dead0man]

I was when I was 16 and was bagging groceries.  I'd like to sarcastically thank them for taking part of my MINIMUM WAGE as dues.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Im required by law to be a member of the Virginia Bar and pay them blood money each year in order to hold a job in my field, so sort of.

[RINO Tom]

No

[DINGO Joe]

I was a school teacher for 5 years so I was then, but I've been a corporate pencil pusher since, so no.

[DC Al Fine]

I was when I was 16 and was bagging groceries.  I'd like to sarcastically thank them for taking part of my MINIMUM WAGE as dues.

Similarly, when I was in college I was a member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees for my summer labourer job. CUPE had an unreasonable dispute with the employer which left them without a contract for several years while wages rose. Consequently, I had the joy of paying union dues on about $2/hr less than the going rate for an unskilled labourer

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Yes. The European Union.

[Lachi]

Yes, The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association.

[The Dowager Mod]

I was a member of WEAC, but not anymore.

[IceSpear]

No

Really? I thought for sure you'd be in RINOs Local 1205.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Yes, thank goodness.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Yes.

[fhtagn]

No

[NOVA Green]

Unfortunately no considering the wages and benefits package that usually comes with a Union Membership....

There are a few times I attempted preliminary steps to help build a Union among Private Sector employers, but it's much tougher than it looks, especially after decades where many Unions have focused on "poaching" members from other Unions, rather than Grassroots organizing campaigns.

Although, I was heavily involved in Union campaigns over the years, from the United Mine Workers of America's  (UMWA) strikes of the late '80s > early '90s, to Labor-Environmental Coalition activities in Ohio / Midwest and the Pacific Northwest in the Timber Industry Era, etc.... Coalition work involving Social Justice Movements, etc...  it's actually extremely difficult to build a Union from scratch, especially after the Reagan Administration destroyed Pattern Bargaining way back in the early '80s, and left it to a "shop-by-shop" style Union Contract....

I do still have an Industrial Workers of the World Union Card (Old school style with paying dues stamps from back in the days), and am still looking the the "Great Leap Forward" when it comes to how average working folks can resist the powerful forces at work when it comes to International Capital that has refined the art of "Global Divide and Conquer" to the extent to which we have never experienced before....

[Mr. Bullocks]

Yes

[Xing]

I'm a teacher, so yes.

[Badger]

Im required by law to be a member of the Virginia Bar and pay them blood money each year in order to hold a job in my field, so sort of.

Speaking as a fellow member of a State Bar Association, not remotely the same.

[Badger]

Yes.

Which one? You don't have to give the local number or anything.

[Technocracy Timmy]

Yes I live in the Union. Confederacy can suck it.