>Someone could just as easily say "if you want to be unionized, go work somewhere else." Well actually there's plenty of times when you literally couldn't go w

>Someone could just as easily say "if you want to be unionized, go work somewhere else." Well actually there's plenty of times when you literally couldn't go work for a union shop, there's not many left. >why you want to steal money from your coworkers. Actually in a shop with union members and free-riding non-union members it's the non-union members who are stealing. They are utilizing a public good (the power of collective bargaining) without contributing. In this sense making a workplace union compulsory is the best way to prevent workers from stealing from one another. Also introducing compulsory unions moves us from a situation where (1) employers have massively more bargaining power than a worker and workers are structurally compelled to compete against each other to one where (2) bargaining power becomes much more equalized and workers can collectively choose in which situations it is appropriate for them to compete with each other. Changing that compulsory union back into members only just moves us back to (1). It does this because it grants structural control back to the corporation and it's in the corporation's interest to make union bargaining power a non-excludable public good which introduces free-rider problems and destroys the union.