Yes, definitely.
Throughout my career, I've worked mostly in community and social services. I've worked at both unionized and non-unionized work sites. A really big thing that makes it imperative for me to be at a unionized work site is some of these differences, not only in wages, but also in things like benefits compensation. That's especially important to me as someone who's at quite a high risk of psychological injury doing the type of work that I do, as well as just physical injury due to my own chronic pain-related disabilities. There are really big differences that I've noticed within the non-profit and community services sector between areas that are unionized and not unionized.
At the work site where I am now, I'm happy to say that we actually started off pretty well. As it was mentioned, we had a work site that wanted to keep up with unionized wages and compensation. Locking that in and getting to bargain higher really helped us quite a lot during that period of inflation throughout 2021 and 2022. It really made a big difference.