• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Aren’t people with college educations more likely to end up in a union? One of the reasons some places don’t want to hire “overqualified” people is because they’re afraid of unionization.

    There’s a variety of reasons for the decline of unions in the US, the main ones being:

    • Anti-union laws and propaganda (Mike Rowe being a big one)

    • Offshoring of manufacturing jobs

    • Major unions defanging themselves by purging radicals/communists to prove they’re “one of the good ones”

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      4 hours ago

      No most higher education jobs aren’t union. Do you bother to lookup anything by yourself before you speak about things?

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        4 hours ago

        No most higher education jobs aren’t union.

        Literally not what I said at all. I said that you are more likely to be in a union if you have more education. Do you bother looking anything up before trying to incorrectly correct others?

        At this point it’s extremely obvious that you’re just trolling.

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            4 hours ago

            Neither of those links are remotely relevant to how higher education correlates with union membership. Trolling.

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                1 hour ago

                Ok, warehouse workers. Servers.

                Pretty sure I could name any industry and the people in those industries with college degrees are more likely to be in a union than those without.

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                  None of those require higher education or a degree. Thats unskilled/semi skilled/ and skilled labor. Which do have unions.

                  The claim is that a worker with a degree is more likely to take a trade position.

                  Teachers come to mind for unions in that regard. But that’s more a relic of the state and federal civilian union culture from 1940s through today.

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                    3 hours ago

                    None of those require higher education or a degree

                    When did I ever claim anything remotely like that?

                    The claim is that a worker with a degree is more likely to take a trade position.

                    When did I ever claim anything remotely like that?

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                  4 hours ago

                  Not an industry boss, it’s arguably an industry job but not an industry.

                  Genius rebuttal though, you could have just googled it.

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                  4 hours ago

                  Taco Bell isn’t an industry and afaik doesn’t have a union, but if they did, then yes, it would follow the same trend as every other industry.

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                    4 hours ago

                    It’s a clearly a joke because of their name though the fact you didn’t get that either is fuckin priceless.

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              4 hours ago

              You couldn’t have possibly looked over all of the aflcios educational information. You’re trolling and you’re extremely bad at it.

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                4 hours ago

                I’m not interested in your random unrelated links. The question is whether people with college educations are more likely to join unions, and the answer to that is yes, and also, I can easily tell from reading the links themselves that they aren’t relevant to that question, troll.

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                  4 hours ago

                  Unrelated? It’s literally the biggest union and the labor relations board, there isn’t a more relevant source to be had.

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                    3 hours ago

                    Their size has zero relevance to the question of demographics unless they actually provide demographic information on the page you linked.