The sadness is build into the US labor laws. The US has enterprise level bargaining (as does UK). In enterprise bargaining anything that helps workers hurts e

The sadness is build into the US labor laws. The US has enterprise level bargaining (as does UK). In enterprise bargaining anything that helps workers hurts enterprises against their nonunionized competition. It's a bad system to have as a main method. Most other countries have versions of sectoral bargaining system, sometimes with some national and enterprise level aspects. Once you understand the difference, it's easier to understand why in the US unions and enterprises have so bad relationship.