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How do public unions get more influence?

• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > How do public unions get more influence? Public sector unions operate in a way analogous to private-sector unions where the union members are mostly also shareholders of the corporation for which they are employed, and work together to lobby other shareholders for action as well as engaging in the usual collective bargaining approaches. This is rare (though not impossible) in the private sector, though there is a private-sector business model (the union co-op model) in which the union more power than in any public union situation, because the union workers are the entirety of the ownership group, not just an important and active subset of the constituency [0]. [0] http://www.geo.coop/story/unions-and-worker-co-ops-working-together http://www.geo.coop/story/unions-and-worker-co-ops-working-t...