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tech_smythe

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8. I find politics the main reason I havent excelled in my jobs...

Sat Apr 21, 2012, 02:20 PM

Apr 2012

Ask clients and most of my co-workers at my last real job - I was very good.
Ask the higher ups - i was horrible.

If we had had a proper union (somehow the company side-stepped that part of the law) I would not have gotten fired because overall I was doing my job very well.

After all isn't the customer the final arbiter?

IIRC Women have been in unions for better than 40 years now.
Has that helped or hurt the equal pay cause?

It just seems to me, at least in this economy, the person who can lie and bullshit the best, gets the better pay no matter the gender.

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Question: If we were all unionized would this change unequal pay for equal work? [View all] Taverner Apr 2012 OP

I believe that if we were all unionized, the focus would be on where corporate money is going Sarah Ibarruri Apr 2012 #1

At worst, it would provide a helpful framework. jeff47 Apr 2012 #2

I find politics the main reason I havent excelled in my jobs... tech_smythe Apr 2012 #8

It would help the same title, same experience pay discrpancy Nikia Apr 2012 #3

Where do you get those kind of percentages "for the exact same job" ProgressiveProfessor Apr 2012 #4

Would it change? Yes. LadyHawkAZ Apr 2012 #5

is it clear as day? i realize it used to be true and it's on the anecdote list. leftyohiolib Apr 2012 #6

Women don't know how much less they're getting paid. Neoma Apr 2012 #7

then how DO we know this is true leftyohiolib Apr 2012 #9

Salary surveys. Neoma Apr 2012 #10

thanks leftyohiolib Apr 2012 #11

that's a good point --because with a union, compensation is allowed to be discussed CreekDog Apr 2012 #14

this will not make any one happy leftyohiolib Apr 2012 #12

Doesn't surprise me. Neoma Apr 2012 #13

I think it would help because pay scales are set CreekDog Apr 2012 #15