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I dunno, I feel like this could have been solved with a pizza party and T-shirts for less money
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Or my personal favourite, a Hackathon to come up with a new product offering!
At my past job, they would have us help them move their dual Xeon monster machines into a hackathon group thing, and then have us help them move them back a week later.
I never understood why not just use laptops, connect a USB-C dock with dual monitors and use RDP to their own monster machines.
They never needed any graphical stuff, so RDP should have been fine…
Happy mint!
T-shirt? We only got soggy subs.
Very nice. If anyone here works at IKEA, just know that unless you unionize those things can disappear just as easily.
AFAIK, unions are insanely strong in Sweden. Though that doesn’t help IKEA employees outside of Sweden.
So we’re relying on the Swedish union to stand up for global employees without a union.
Believe it or not, but I’m an organizer. I believe that too many people think unionizing just happens to workers, rather than workers forcing it to appear to protect themselves. IKEA is international. Swedish coworkers can’t defend workers in the US, US workers have to demand they’re treated the same as their Swedish coworkers.
not related, but I can never look at un-ionizing as a good thing to humans. I’m very pro ions.
Didn’t the recent Swedish Tesla conflict spill over borders? Dock workers in Norway and Sweden refused to unload materials for Tesla as long as the dispute in Sweden was resolved.
It did, but not because the workers in Sweden pulled Norway along. The workers in Norway knew that if they didn’t stand in solidarity with their fellow workers then, then Tesla would try the same shit with them. In the US, those strikes are technically illegal (not criminal) but still happen anyway. I helped organize a walkout for CWA, and by getting the word out the teamsters showed up with equipment and we had 2 other local presidents come join us on the picket line.
Yep.
As someone who once sat back and said “I’ll have what the Union is having.” at negotiation time - I’m sad to report that I stopped being able to do that in tough times.
And I’m happy to report I no longer have this problem, as the union expanded and now I’m able to be a member.
Capitolism, baybeeeeeee!!!
This is AFAIK normal, as legal details for unions differ by country. In other words you cannot have a single global union. The per-country unions can of course communicate and plan action to be synchronized, sure. But as unions they exist separate, and have to. As in, they’re striking at “IKEA Germany”, not “IKEA”.
I don’t know that I’d use ‘insanely’ as the modifier here as their position has weakened significantly over time, but they do certainly still play a large role in the Swedish labour market.
I mean… compared to the states, they’re practically a political party.
I don’t know about other countries, but here in Germany IKEA workers are unionized, and have been for a long time.
And have been on strike recently, for quite some time.
That’s awesome! I’d be curious to know which industrial union they’re a part of, I love learning about labor movements in other countries. I’m from the US so when I say unionize, it’s more comparable to a worker council. But the crazy shit you might have heard about like captive audience meetings, firing organizers, and anti-union onboarding absolutely happen. It’s an uphill battle for sure.
What im about to say applies to belgium, and i dont know about other countries or companies or how it works if a company from another country has a base in belgium, so take everything i say with a pinch of salt.
SO
In belgium every company with more than x amount of employees ( i think its either 50 or 100 ) must have a worker council meeting every month and have worker council member votings every few years, to select what employee will join said meetings with a select few people of the heads of the company. The members are people who have joined a union ( which is just being registered, has nothing to do with your job and which union depends on the job and your political views. Each union is large enough to cause mayhem and force talks ) and have put themselves forward to be in those meetings.
After said voting, the representatives are selected and join the meetings.
While the representative is selected him or her can not be easily fired or laid off. While they are registered at a union they also can not be fired without a valid reason, as that would get the company investigated.So overall here what union doesnt mean that much, but the process is more important.
I would also like to point out that i love this whole thing, even if ive worked with a complete asshat that was the workers representative and seriously needed to be fired because he did his actual job (handyman) terribly. The fact he was in those meetings meant the workers were represented and im sure he did that part right as he kept being voted for.
They’re part of ver.di, although that in itself skips a whole host of details that I personally don’t all know either. But yeah over here plenty unions are local in a company, too. But they also got strong legal protections (and some obligations), so apart from the shakey time when you’re forming a union, they’re on stable ground.
Some others - like ver.di - are large cross-business union aggregations that centralize their decisionmaking process and then can strike on multiple divergent businesses at the same time to force business owners to come to the table. From what I know from people who are in such companies, upsides and downsides. They got a lot of pull, but in return their demands are often rather generic which is good if you just care about pay, but bad if you want things more specific to your work.
But again, totally not an expert about unions.
Word.
Genius, how did they think of that
They tried everything else, first. Then tried everything else, again. Then they got desperate.
Ha. We have a call center quality issue at work. I keep telling them that what they really have is a pay issue. You get low talent for low pay. Raise the pay and the talent magically appears. Works every time. And yet …
Wouldn’t even call it talent, but rather motivation. Pay minimum wage, you get minimum effort.
What? Better working conditions and pay make employees happy? That just seems… so radical.
But have they considered the tried-and-true methods? Daily happiness meetings, of course! And don’t forget the “anonymous” surveys everyone knows are totally trustworthy. We can even measure happiness with fancy KPIs and build a whole dashboard to discuss at even more meetings! Consultants? Absolutely! Let’s throw a whole workshop extravaganza at this “happiness” problem!
Let’s have a five minute daily meditation and a coupon for coffee! That’ll surely help the drain on morale.
Man, a guaranteed 5 mins of a quiet break and coffee that I don’t have to bring myself sounds kinda nice
As a salaried manager that’s a dream. What’s a break!?
the “anonymous” surveys everyone knows are totally trustworthy.
management and HR will swear up and down they are anonymous. Even on web forums… but the reality is you get a really obvious idea of who said what on what teams because management band together to figure out who would have said something based on their attitude, opinions and perspective.
You can and will be singled out by management for saying negative things. Managers will be required to address the criticism… by choosing strategies behind closed doors, perhaps after having a “group discussion” where they report what they want their boss to hear to their boss, and then tell said boss what the plan is to change to address things is later. It will not be a change that affects the leader except to show they did something worthy of a performance bonus or a promotion though.
All results that ask for more pay are basically ignored. They know why the departments with high turnover have high turnover. It’s a decision to keep those workers paid less because there’s no value to paying them more. Usually the highest turnover roles are treated like commodities. Sales person with strong ethics? Fired! Sales person caught doing illegal stuff to get sales? Fired! Sales person who gets away with selling doctors on drugs for unapproved indications? Big bonuses!
The moment the bosses and the owner decided they wanted to get paid more than the workers was the moment any sense of equity vanished.
I depends on how the survey is done. If it’s an outside company you basically get zero comments. I had to run the survey results and Gameplan for 200 employees yearly. I had zero idea, let alone time, to figure out who might have given us bad scores. It was a lot of graphs on what people felt we could improve or what we excelled at, so KPIs. Big surprise that compensation and communication were the two that needed the most work. It almost always is in different industries I’ve been in. It was truly anonymous on the level I was at (knowing the employees).
And when none of that works and people quit, it isn’t because you treated them horribly and it’s your fault, it’s because people just don’t want to work anymore.
You forgot the pizza parties.
Oh hey, look, it’s the plainly obvious things we’ve been complaining about my whole life.
So let me get this straight. Give the employees higher pay, more flexibility AND subside childcare? That sounds like less money in my pocket, which is counter productive. It also fails the trickle-down economy. At the same time, our profit margin would go down, and it must always go up! I expect IKEA to go bankrupt within the next 6 months with this strategy.
-any capitallist fuckhead
This just in: Employees now engaging in Quiet Capitalism.
What can be done about this profit sapping new trend!
Holy shit he cracked the code! This CEO finally found the solution to the mystery of the unhappy workers! CEOs truly are amazingly brilliant, thank god those workers have him to be the cure for their unhappiness. This is such amazing news. I wonder what other problems CEOs will solve for workers next?
Yeah… IKEA’S CEO did that… /s
He needs to sell it to the board. And gets shit if he raises costs without discernible benefits.
But yeah he has a whole company of number crunchers and such to devise a plan.
No. Unions get the job done. 💪
Better pay and working conditions? What a revolutionary idea.
Good job IKEA!
Now if they could just stop their shady lumber sourcing practices, that’d be great
Or their even shadier tax dodging practices.
This is the way.
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Yeah…no. I mean, they’re paying kids to play a game and promote their brand, which is decent of them. But the only time I’m ever going to play a job simulator game is when I’m either learning something from it (like PCBS 2) or if it has a fun component with it (like killing violent produce in Shooty Fruity in between working a grocery store register).
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