Unionized Folk--How much are your union dues?

[Scouzer]

I know most of you are not unionized, so please ignore this thread!

They work out to be 2.2% for me. It's unfortunate because we're not even legally allowed to strike. It's a lot of my salary gone without needing to have a strike fund.

 

[Born2bwire]

Looks like 1.6% for me.

 

[Eli]

I read the first part of this going.. "Un-ionized? What the fsck is un-ionized? I don't think I'd want to be ionized..."....

Then I read the complete sentence and was like, "Oh.. unionized".. LOL

 

[BoomerD]

Mine averaged out to about 2 hours pay per month for many years, but about 10 years ago, the union instituted a supplemental dues program, in which the contractor pays a percentage of our dues (part of the collective bargaining package) up to about 40 cents/hour, and any monies added to that comes out of our wage increases. When I last worked, (12/03) I was paying about $60/month PLUS 55 cents/hour. Had we NOT gone with the supplemental dues, I'd have been paying well over $100/month. (It was ~$80/month 10 years ago)
Fortunately, union dues are deductable, (although you don't get the same amount of benefit you would have if you didn't pay them) and when I compare wages between what I make as a union hand and what the non-union folks who do similar work make...I'll GLADLY pay dues. If it costs me $100/month, and the difference in wages is $10-$15/hour...It doesn't take much to make up the cost of those dues.
I call the difference in pay "Non-Union dues"...and I'd sure hate for people to think I can't add...

 

[olds]

About 1.4%

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: Scouzer
I know most of you are not unionized, so please ignore this thread!

They work out to be 2.2% for me. It's unfortunate because we're not even legally allowed to strike. It's a lot of my salary gone without needing to have a strike fund.

what do you do that you can't legally strike ?

 

[bctbct]

$21 per month plus .40 per hour dues check-off which is technically paid by the employer.

A very good bang for the buck.

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: ebaycj

Originally posted by: Scouzer
I know most of you are not unionized, so please ignore this thread!

They work out to be 2.2% for me. It's unfortunate because we're not even legally allowed to strike. It's a lot of my salary gone without needing to have a strike fund.

what do you do that you can't legally strike ?

Canadian Air Traffic Controller.

 

[Squisher]

2 hrs. of pay per month.

 

[Marinski]

$20 a month for the teamsters

 

[dartworth]

2.5%/hour + $27/month

 

[BarneyFife]

1.4%

 

[FallenHero]

about 45 a month for the FOP

 

[TheSiege]

damn, mine are at 5% plus 31.20 a month

damn, its actually 7%

my gross was 574.40 and my dues were 40.21 i think they are dropping to 5 percent soon

and then plus 31.20 a month on top of that

i am just an apprentice, guys are paying double what i am

 

[boomerang]

2 hours of pay per month right now, but it's a contract year. All bets are off.

 

[jme5343]

Not union anymore (though they still want me to pay dues). Ours were $80/month for what boils down to $$ to protect the lazy and incompetent.

 

[IGBT]

..union dues should be a flat rate not %.

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..union dues should be a flat rate not %.

Mine is 1.7% of the top increment in the pay scale. It works out to 2.2% for me, since I'm not near the top of the scale yet.

 

[skyking]

$20 per month plus 2%

 

[KillerCharlie]

$30/mo. However, having being unionized in my line of work (aerospace engineer) is very very rare.

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..union dues should be a flat rate not %.

why?

 

[Old Hippie]

Originally posted by: Squisher
2 hrs. of pay per month.

It used to be.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: TheSiege
damn, mine are at 5% plus 31.20 a month

damn, its actually 7%

my gross was 574.40 and my dues were 40.21 i think they are dropping to 5 percent soon

and then plus 31.20 a month on top of that

i am just an apprentice, guys are paying double what i am

you in the 5yr/8000hr electrician appreticeship?

some states allow you to take the journeyman license with 4yrs. so u can get journeyman pay and benefits a year earlier.

 

[Colt45]

I think it was 2hr/mo at the last unionized place i worked.

Didn't bother me though, as I was making double what I'd have been making had it been non-union.



What did suck was getting bumped to graveyards.

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: dartworth

Originally posted by: IGBT
..union dues should be a flat rate not %.

why?

..a flate rate would require them to justify an increase rather then automatic increases tied to a %.