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This is where Union on paper falls apart. Eventually Unions (like large companies and governments) end up being part of the issue they were forced to solve. You
by Xeoncross 4y ago
This is where Union on paper falls apart. Eventually Unions (like large companies and governments) end up being part of the issue they were forced to solve. You don't have a choice, you have to join the union that runs the area. Union boss is a real thing. It's just another government you're forced to pay taxes too even if you don't want to be a part of it.
Unions are great at first though.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoTo the extent that this is true in the USA it would be so thanks to the Taft Hartley Act of 1947, which restricts Union power in general while placing all of the unions power in the hands of the union leadership. The act makes wildcat strikes illegal so all strikes must be agreed upon by leadership. It makes sympathy strikes illegal. And that’s just what I remember off the top of my head (IANAL). The act should be repealed so union members have the power to strike regardless of whether union leadership agrees. Many common issues with unions people will share in this thread are experiences had under the Taft-Hartley Act, which is not the natural state of unions but an act of the state to weaken their power. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act
- Xeoncross 4y agoThis is a really great point. The laws that get put on the books have a habit of benefiting the few over the many even if the sales pitch was to help everyone.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoWell the whole point of this law was that there were a lot of strikes after WW2 and the government wanted to weaken union power, so while they may have pitched this as helping everyone it was obviously a way to empower the business class over workers.