• mech@feddit.org
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    12 hours ago

    I joined a union and organized the election of a workers council at my workplace.
    Union dues are 1% of my salary.

    In the past 5 years, we managed to enforce:

    • the right to work from home
    • 20% pay for the time spent on call after hours, plus 1 day paid vacation for each week you’re on call (so I now have 42 days + unlimited sick days)
    • a company car for on call duty, which you’re allowed to use privately, too
    • work phones for every employee (instead of having to install the company MDM on your private phone)
    • convertible desks for everyone
    • and a substantial pay raise
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        10 hours ago

        Sorry for the misunderstanding.
        It began with a little thing, simply writing an e-mail to the union, and kind of grew from there.

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          9 hours ago

          All good man, I just wanted to point out how impressive what you did was. You didn’t just stick it to the man, you went Vlad the Impaler on his ass.