Dyspraxia in Work. How much can my Union Help me?
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 11:04 am
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There is definitely a real danger of that. But I think a lot depends on how prepared the dyspraxic person is. Also, in my limited experience, union members are often quite 'streetwise' at seeing through employer's attempts to dodge the issue.I feel from a low self esteem point of view many people would back down and the employer would win (or would they?)
I too have fortunately never had to call on the support of a union but I think they have a role to try to work constructively with management to ensure that workers rights are protected. I do feel the media has been manipulated to propagate a distorted view of what the unions stand for with the result that public opinion has been turned against them 'as a bunch of rabble rousers" and I appreciate that in some cases this view could be deemed to be not unreasonable. My view is influenced by how I was brought up and my own personal perception. I appreciate it might be contentious to some.Ram wrote: There is definitely a real danger of that. But I think a lot depends on how prepared the dyspraxic person is. Also, in my limited experience, union members are often quite 'streetwise' at seeing through employer's attempts to dodge the issue.
Please take anything I say with a pinch of salt since I've had the good fortune to never have an issue with an employer since being diagnosed.
That is an interesting point. As a kid growing up in Thatcher's Britain in the 1980s, I thought that unions were worse than Satan himself.Tom fod wrote:
I too have fortunately never had to call on the support of a union but I think they have a role to try to work constructively with management to ensure that workers rights are protected. I do feel the media has been manipulated to propagate a distorted view of what the unions stand for with the result that public opinion has been turned against them 'as a bunch of rabble rousers" and I appreciate that in some cases this view could be deemed to be not unreasonable. My view is influenced by how I was brought up and my own personal perception. I appreciate it might be contentious to some.