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Unions are democratic organizations. Employees elect the leadership, which can effectively advocate on their behalf for changes to company strategy in addition
by ahelwer 6y ago
Unions are democratic organizations. Employees elect the leadership, which can effectively advocate on their behalf for changes to company strategy in addition to general compensation & working conditions issues. So yes, by creating a parallel power structure beholden to workers, not management, unions do give individual employees more input.
You are saying that an individual employee voicing their concerns to their manager has more sway than a union bringing that concern up to the executives.
- gher-shyu3i 6y agoJust because they're democratically elected does not mean they will act on the the best for each individual employee.
- ahelwer 6y agoSure. Pretty easy to beat the standard set when there's no union though, which in my experience is "your manager listens to your concerns and explains to you why it isn't a problem". The parallel power structure offers you the possibility of recourse, but not the guarantee. And if you want to put effort into having your concerns heard, you'll be convincing people (your coworkers) whose interest generally align with yours.