The only union job I ever held was a brief stint as a kid working in a grocery store under UFCW. Worthless does not begin to describe them. I was making a dime over minimum wage ($3.35) but they took around forty bucks per check out of me for dues. Mainly they went to bat for employees who damned well deserved to get fired and made the owner reinstate them. Did not stick around long.
I thought Aldi were Teamsters.
UFCW?
I have *no* use for those assholes. None, whatsoever.
Back in 1993, I was working at an A&P store (along with two other part time jobs) after High School, trying to save up money for better housing, and one of the other companies owned by A&P at the time, namely Miracle Foodmart, went on strike.
UFCW did not picket MFM.
Instead, they blockaded A&P, (as in, blocked the doors, and blocked the parking lot entrances, and blocked the loading docks) and demanded that the A&P workers join their picket line. Two weeks into it, UFCW also brought in goons from the Auto Workers and the Postal Workers’ Union.
Those of us, who had the temerity to complain to our supposed “representatives” that we were under a different bargaining agreement, and still needed to make a living were told, in no uncertain terms, that we needed to walk out and join the MFM picket line.
The unionised truckers, of course, refused to cross the picket lines, so we were forced to try and hand-bomb trucks, one box at a time, from across the street from the parking lot, all-the-while having Union goons demanding to see our union cards, and demanding that we not cross the picket line. Cops were called a few times, when folks got beaten up.
Corporate propaganda.