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40 hour work week? Unions Weekend off? Unions 9-5? Unions Retirement Savings? Unions Pension Program? Unions Health Benefits? Unions Vacation Time? Unions

• colmvp 10y ago
  Even in Canada where citizens are prideful about socialized health insurance, we owe a debt of gratitude to Trade Unions who, alongside social workers, farm groups, and labour federations, advocated on behalf of working Canadians for socialized health insurance, arguing private health insurance was significantly more limited than what the insurance industry boasted. And who opposed to the socialized health insurance movement? Nearly every medical association (doctors, dentists), the entire insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and even premiers of provinces.
• darpa_escapee 10y ago
  Just a friendly reminder that people had been beaten, shot at, bombed and attacked by the US military for the things you listed. Employers were not willing to give those concessions without a fight.
  • velodrome 10y ago
    > Employers were not willing to give those concessions without a fight. Today, they don't have to fight. They can offshore, outsource, or automate your job. There are a lot more options these days then there were back then...
    • valarauca1 10y ago
      Not really. These all boil down to the same thing. Firing the offending laborer. So really we haven't advanced far since the 1850's. --- This is why Anti-Unionists get so pissy about Unions blocking people from being fired. It removes the main power owners have over their workers.