I’m trying to get my workplace unionised, but I have this one colleague who keeps insisting that Unite has shareholders and the biggest shareholder is Blackrock and Vanguard and it’s all a plot, etc etc. I was like ??? Unions have shareholders now?
So I did a bit of searching and it seems he came across a website about a private real estate company that’s also called Unite who does indeed have shares owned by Blackrock and Vanguard.
I’m not going mad, am I? Unions don’t have investors and shareholders, do they? He really did conflate this separate company with the union? I just need to put his conspiracy theory to bed so I can try to get our place unionised.
No, they’re either a doughnut or being disengenuious due to their political beliefs regarding unions. Unions funding all comes from the dues they receive, they’re only as powerful as their members let them be.
I’m trying to get my workplace unionised, but I have this one colleague who keeps insisting that Unite has shareholders and the biggest shareholder is Blackrock and Vanguard and it’s all a plot, etc etc. I was like ??? Unions have shareholders now?
So I did a bit of searching and it seems he came across a website about a private real estate company that’s also called Unite who does indeed have shares owned by Blackrock and Vanguard.
I’m not going mad, am I? Unions don’t have investors and shareholders, do they? He really did conflate this separate company with the union? I just need to put his conspiracy theory to bed so I can try to get our place unionised.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00969191/officers
No, they’re either a doughnut or being disengenuious due to their political beliefs regarding unions. Unions funding all comes from the dues they receive, they’re only as powerful as their members let them be.