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Unions can do whatever they set their mind to, and whatever their membership elects to do. Like humanity itself and other broad categories, saying as a matter

Unions can do whatever they set their mind to, and whatever their membership elects to do. Like humanity itself and other broad categories, saying as a matter of fact that unions can’t do X, when some unions do X, is pretty asinine, almost as much as lumping more than 3B people into “Asians” or other useless categorizations. Particularly if the article doesn’t mention a country of origin being Germany. You don’t even have to look very far from Germany to find a union negotiating WFH. https://rfi.fr/en/france/20201205-why-france-is-struggling-to-embrace-the-work-from-home-revolution-covid-19-telecommuting-unions https://rfi.fr/en/france/20201205-why-france-is-struggling-t... https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1993852.html https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1993852.html

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Sure, unions can in theory demand whatever they want, but if they don't show enough teeth, as in actually having strikes, they usually don't ask because the corporate overlords will say 'no' anyway. Unions in Germany are usually a lot more submissively than in France and rarely fight for gaining new perks, they just look after maintain the existing ones, moistly following the "don't bite the hand that feeds you" mentality.