NYC Transit Strike
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- adamfinger0
No. Your boss would laugh at you and hire someone else? Why, because as designers, we are forced into a position whereby decent jobs are scarce and people take what they can get. Even the most talented of individuals have to make those sorts of concessions.
A union is there to protect your interests. It's to make it so that a wage increase is guarenteed and that your boss can't simply hire someone else who is willing to work for less. To me that sounds more than reasonable. Anyone whose a worker (rather than an employer) should have or fight for a union to offset that balance.
I'm writing a piece right now for unionization in the graphic design field. Whether or not its met with any sort of consideration is a different story, but I think its worth it--especially considering the lack of job stability, lack of decent hours, lack of retirement, etc...