re: Who here is in a union? Do you feel it helps or hurts?

I work at a university where we have union and non-union staff. It creates a major divide and is a management nightmare. It's definitely tilted me toward the anti-union side of the ledger.

When my union staff member left, to get another union person to pick up a little slack (process expenses on about 10 transactions a month) took endless emails and several months of discussion, so we gave up on that and someone else volunteered to do it. All that for about one hour of work per month.

To top it off, the fringe costs to our employer are 30% on top of non-union salaries and 60% on top of union salaries.