I grew up in a far-right family, so learned from an early age that unions were evil. But during college I worked summers in a factory that really needed a union. [long stories of Actual Evil redacted]
The next summer I went to a factory that had a union that didn’t need to do anything because the company was so damn decent to their employees. Nice contrast.
Ended up as a teacher. I had great benefits and was able to retire earlier than I’d planned, thanks to the tireless work of great union people.
Due to my childhood union-busting prejudices (and natural cynicism), I kept looking for ways the teachers’ union was screwing people over, and in thirty years I never found any.
I’ve also seen it get promoted as, ‘Don’t drive one in five’ So, a bit of green washing but yes, I think the purpose was for that department to be mostly staffed with younger workers, mostly right out of college.
The “don’t drive one in five” was an effort to have people telecommute one day a week in the companies I have worked at. Reduces facility costs for the company, reduce time commuting for the workers, less pollution, wins all around. Doesn’t really apply to people working in a distribution center, as far as I can see.
I don’t have a big problem with job titles and employees for the most part. But I’ve had a few employees who claimed to be managers when they weren’t invited to a leadership retreat get quite irate when I pointed out that having zero direct and indirect reports made them individual contributors not managers.
I mean, it’s really not. Rather than go by job titles, the Fair Labor Standards Act has five tests they use to determine whether a position is exempt from FLSA requirements for overtime. Not that companies haven’t tried getting away with that kind of nonsense in the past.
I friend of mine’s wife went through that. This was in the 1990s.
They took 5 days of vacation away from them to be put into a sick bank, regardless of how much sick time they already have accrued. The remainder of whatever vacation time an employee had became PDOs ( paid days off ) that would be granted only at will by the company. Sneaky way of giving people previously accrued time off they will find it impossible to use. Then any overtime changed from anything over 40 hours in one week, to anything over 80 hours within a specific two-week period. That’s not raising the bar, it’s yanking up to the moon. A dick move. They made them management, but their spheres of influence and responsibilities were the same.
Odd to see an Acura in there - Honda usually has their shit together. But I suppose luxury crossovers are weird beasts and everybody designs a dud once in awhile.
That the most reliable list is mostly Toyotas (including Lexus models) with a few Mazdas and one Hyundai is less of a surprise. I have a Mazda and have really no major complaints with it.