I think I'm happy with this. Sounds a lot better than the race to the bottom I see in some countries. I think also we see a lot less union activity than you do

I think I'm happy with this. Sounds a lot better than the race to the bottom I see in some countries. I think also we see a lot less union activity than you do. I couldn't tell you who was in the union. The most prominent thing they do is put up some posters reminding people of employment law. I never saw them make wage negotiations and to a large extent, that's not what they do. So far as I could tell, they principally exist to provide another channel for enforcing employment law and ensuring safety standards in the workplace were being met, and in the even of unfair treatment provide an employee with support and legal representation. Maybe if they were heavily into negotiating wages and so on, it would be different (I think in some industries maybe they still do that), but I've never seen them do that in any company for which I've worked. Seems that unions do very different things in our respective countries; I expect them to protect me from illegal activity on the part of the powerful, rather than win anything for me.