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Unionization is done for collective bargaining in worker's best interest; the problem is when it is done to organize strikes to force the employer to enact soci
by Noos 7y ago
Unionization is done for collective bargaining in worker's best interest; the problem is when it is done to organize strikes to force the employer to enact social or political policies. This may remove the idea of collective bargaining and turn it into a top down fiefdom to promote the organizers pet ideologies
- shadowgovt 7y agoIt could, if union members didn't take active interest in the activities of the union, since union leadership is generally beholden to them. This is true of any body politic that elects leadership. I find myself wondering (from the aggregate of posts in this topic) how many people actually have union experience. Unions are highly political creatures. In my state, at least one of the unions requires during election seasons that their membership take time out of their personal lives (time the union knows they have because they've held hours and overtime standards for over a century) to work the phones to stump for political candidates the union supports.