I used to work at a large German retailer with a long history and because in the past, the Blue collar workers organized and fought for protection, the white co

I used to work at a large German retailer with a long history and because in the past, the Blue collar workers organized and fought for protection, the white collar workers were protected by the union, too. They’d enjoy all benefit- mandatory overtime limit and payment, parental benefits above and beyond the legal minimum, name it. Still, on the days when the blue collar workers went on strike for a collective bargaining round, the privileged IT workers all went to their cubicles and spent the day cracking jokes about the union.