• Buglefingers
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    209 months ago

    My business just had two meeting recently, one was about “the seriousness of unionization”, and the second was regarding a potential shift change because they are unable to fill 20+ positions and people keep leaving.

    I would like to preface the seriousness of this with some historical facts about the business: they on average used to pay $12-$15 over competitors (now equal to or even less than), they used to offer pensions (Not any more), they used to have a call list of over 200 applicants (for decades) of whom they could call up and offer a job and those people would quit and jump on board (they can’t hire from anywhere in the country or Puerto Rico with relocation bonuses included). And the average length of a workers term was 28 years (now just under 5).

      • Buglefingers
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        29 months ago

        Very much not Lowes’s, though I doubt people would travel 1-2 states over to work at Lowe’s

        • @[email protected]
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          fedilink
          09 months ago

          Walking from one end of Lowe’s to the other is like going to a different state to take a 15 minute break

    • @ReiRose
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      19 months ago

      Sounds like it’s time to unionize!

      • Buglefingers
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        39 months ago

        NGL, seems like its getting close! Probably spring of 2025 is gonna be the make or break for this place