I thought Costco was a good employer?
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
386 points (100.0% liked)
News
24249 readers
4442 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
That may be why the union leaders aren't talking about matching the market or something similar, but instead a "historic, industry-leading agreement".
If the members don't deliver a strike mandate to Union leadership, they have no leverage during contract negotiations. Voting against a strike is directly voting against your own interests no matter how good the employer is.
This righ here, Costco is better than the competition, they still leave a lot to be desired, especially for corp employees
“Good” can be relative but isn’t necessarily fair. They might treat their employees better than Walmart but making record profits and not sharing with the employees is not fair or good. The union exists to make them be fair.
Consider that a company has no problem asking the union for concessions during low times. It’s only fair for the union to demand a share of the high times.
They want a raise. I expect they also want more headcount. Go to a Costco warehouse in a major city and it's absolutely wild how overrun they are. People are buying from Costco because buying in bulk is the only way to make it with current food prices.
They were. It's been over 10 years since I worked there, but I wouldn't be surprised if they still are comparatively good, but that's because they have a union.
They are, relatively.
TIL Costco employees are unionized.
Good for them!
Only some. 18k of some 300k+ employees are unionized.
Thing is, Costco takes such good care of most of their frontline employees that the employees legitimately don't see the need for a union, because the company is possibly the only one in the modern world that figured out it's cheaper if you keep employees happy by paying them more.
Their pay scales and benefits are amazing for grocery store work, up to 30 an hour, and there is a direct promotion path from part time checkout clerk up to management with 100k+ salaries.
All employees of corporations need unions, because all corporations inherently have a motive to rob as much value from their employees as possible. And that's the bandaid solution, not the true solution of ending capitalism.
Also, a large part of why they have it so good as is, is because they have a union. It's like saying "we don't need vaccines, we're all healthy!" while forgetting that the vaccines themselves is what made health so good.
A So, their annual profits are almost the same amount as the total of their annual membership fees. That means that, essentially, Costco sells everything at cost + operating expenses. I respect the hell out of thst.
That being said, if the teamsters strike, I won't cross the pocket line.
Got this in my newsfeed and was worried before I found out that this is in the US, lol
Gotta tell Google to stop feeding me American news that sounds like it could be Canadian news
Unions nearly always vote to authorize during contract negotiations, to do otherwise removes all their bargaining power.