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Because unions need lawyers (and other professionals) to litigate on their behalf. The Venn diagram between lawyers and iron workers/developers/journalists etc.
by hjnilsson 8y ago
Because unions need lawyers (and other professionals) to litigate on their behalf. The Venn diagram between lawyers and iron workers/developers/journalists etc. is very slim. So money is required to hire this skill set.
However workers who represent the union are often unpaid. Or paid very little for their efforts.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoLitigation can happen without unions, there was a class-action on overtime pay at one company I worked at that had a payout. Could a kickstarter or contingency support more cases?
- patmcc 8y agoThere was a very recent Supreme Court decision that impacts this - employers can insist (as a condition of employment) that employees use arbitration only for these kind of claims. Which makes class action suits impossible, and leads to more and more wage theft - since stealing $1000 from a bunch of employees would be enough to warrant a lawsuit if done collectively, but not if each individual has to go through arbitration.