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[-] drailin@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago

Cries in Texas Graduate Student who is legally prevented from unionizing 🫠

Having to petition my university for basic considerations (not owing back tution to the university despite being employed by them, getting health care covered, getting pay raises so we can afford to live where we work) has been hell without any union support.

Fuck Texas, can't wait to finish up here and move.

[-] Purplexingg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

How does that work? I'm a federal employee in a union. You figure if the feds can so can state employees

[-] drailin@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

It is literally just state gov employees in TX that are barred from unionizing, I shit you not. We have no worker protections when it comes to any element of collective bargaining. The state can terminate our contracts as punishment for doing so. Even teachers here aren't allowed to. Unsurprisingly, pigs (and firefighters too for optics I guess) are the only state employees allowed to unionize.

This includes political subdivisions of the state, so county/city employees are also barred.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow. Where I live we have the AUPE, which is the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, which is literally a union for employees of the province (as stated in the name).

I’ve never been a part of it so I’m can’t make any claims to their effectiveness, but I know a lot of dumb people who make complaints about overpaid government workers.

Like no. They’re not overpaid, you’re underpaid.