I haven't seen this crop up in here, apologies if it already is here.
Simply put... are you pro or anti union? And why?
Personally, I've dealt with working for a union. That lasted...oh all of a weekend... before I got my snoot-full of the utter crap that was a union. Communism is alive and well, at least at unionized grocery stories it seems. I should have run for the hills at the "terms and conditions" stage of the interview, but I needed a job and tried my best to tough it out. Here's my experience:
Upon the hiring in process, they had said they needed people to work receiving/stock. Once interviewed, I was told I'd be at the register, which is NOT what I wanted, but hey, beggars =/= choosers, so whatever. Next I was told...at MOST...I'd be getting 12-15 hours a week, but bank more on 9 hours average. Yeah, ok, that'll pay the bills. And my wages? "Minimum, no more, that's all the union will allow for new people." Um...I thought the union was here to HELP not stick it to their slaves workers. (What is minimum wage in Michigan, you ask? At the time, $7.50/hr... which isn't bad until you consider......) Oh yeah, and by the way, you owe $90 in union dues every paycheck. So right there, kiss at least 1/2 my earnings (pretax) goodbye. (Assuming 9 hours, I'd only make $135 a paycheck, making my take-home pay less than $45 every two weeks.)
But it got better! Raises were not based on merit. They were based on how many hours one worked. So a grunt like me working 9 hours a week would see a raise far after someone sitting on their duff for 30 hours a week, doing a job like hanging clothes or sitting at a counter waiting for someone to ask them to unlock the video game case. Doesn't matter how HARD you work, just for how long. With my first raise being at the 500-hours-worked mark, it'd be awhile. So the person at the next register over who picked their nose all shift would get the raise first due to seniority (hours, like raises, were given not by merit, but by time spent there) before me busting my hump.
The icing on the cake? I already had plans set by my family for a vacation (paid up and all) for my birthday, which was a month and a half after my start date. I told them when I applied this was already booked. They said "Well, you're new. You can't ask for time off. The best we can give you is schedule something for early-Saturday so you can be done by about 2pm and work the rest of the night."
Me: "So, say I have a doctor's appointment...?" Them: "Try and trade shifts with someone, you can't ask for a day off until you've had at least 90 working days in."
Them: "Oh and Christmas eve is mandatory to work until at least 9pm, though we have to set up for the day-after Christmas sale, so probably more like 11pm. Christmas is the only day we are closed." That's fine, I see my family after Christmas for Russian Orthodox Christmas...that's in January...I can get time off to see them, right? "No, you can't have any weekends off for at least a year. Maybe you can get someone to switch, but you better be prepared to work Saturday night." Um, that's when the festivities happen...and it's 2 hours away. "Too bad".
Needless to say, I walked out.
Sorry for the tl;dr.... the short version is, a certain known grocery chain tried to make me less "valued employee" and more "indentured slave".
And that is why I'll never work for or support a union.