Reply #15: I hated having a union. [View All]

I worked in one of the detroit casinos for 5 years and our union was pathetic. They never saved anyone's job. Not ONE! And once the union came in everything changed. The casino I worked at used every single loophole they could find to screw us over and our union reps didn't know what the heck they were doing.

And when they did fire you, and you collected unemployment, after it ran out, the casino would sue you to get the money back. The union did nothing.

We got raises, yeah... but the dues went up as much as the raises. And if you were a tipped employee... forget about it. And forget about going on strike, because if you were one of the 1000 dealers you didn't get the same deal non-tipped employees got. You didn't get 60% of $20 an hour, you got 60% of $7 an hour; but you still paid dues on all of your money.

I don't know, maybe in other professions they work better, but I know in the gambling industry, they suck.

Sorry... that's just been my experience.