Workers across the country are taking a stand and demanding better conditions, benefits and pay. While their workplaces vary, employees are united in at least one of their grievances: opposition to a two-tier benefit and wage system.
In growing numbers, workers across the country are taking a stand and demanding better conditions, benefits and pay from their employers. While their workplaces vary,employees are united in at least one of their grievances: opposition to a two-tier benefit and wage system.
“These future workers are like unborn babies,” said David Woods, international secretary-treasurer of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union, or BCTGM. “They don’t have a face or a name yet, but we know they’re coming behind us. Companies want to take away from future employees and that isn’t acceptable.”
“Employers do them in waves because they tend to lead to low morale and if you institute them over and over again they cause more problems,” said Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. “We see them whenever there’s an economic crisis. There was a big push for them in the ‘80s, then a wave in the ‘90s and now we’re seeing them again. It appears to be contagious.
The two-tier system is an attempt to break the union and create disharmony among workers, said Jane Carter, a research director for United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, or UNAC/UHCP. “There’s anger about not being appreciated through the pandemic,” Woods said. “Companies brag about record profits, while workers work record hours.”
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