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Why would they want to do that?
by shellfishgene 4y ago
Why would they want to do that?
- Frost1x 4y agoI always find the anti-union stance interesting. Unions are, by and large, typically in your self-interest if you're an individual and sell your time for compensation in anyway. It doesn't matter if you're a Hollywood screen writer, professional athlete, or warehouse worker. As an individual you have significantly less power/leverage in negotiations than whomever is employing you with rare exceptions where you're quite close to irreplaceable. Yes, unions can run amuck and like any structure can be abused, but the abuse is typically (not always) in the direction that benefits you as a laborer. This is counter to the current state of affairs where most all abuse in the labor market is one sided, against you. Typically your only real leverage is irreplacability and mobility across the labor market (or overall financial independene to stop working entirely). Outside of that you're at the mercy of whatever level of business manager sets atop you and take whatever they can legally (and sometimes illegally) get away with.