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Unions are not just groups of organized workers they have extensive legal privileges, if they were just groups of people with no special legal rights people wou
by dantheman 3y ago
Unions are not just groups of organized workers they have extensive legal privileges, if they were just groups of people with no special legal rights people would object to them a lot less.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoThose legal rights are gained from being organized workers. No business wants a union. Thats the point.
- busterarm 3y agoI vividly remember when the local baker's union got a supermarket baker unfired for serially urinating in the cake batter because they used video footage to fire him and filming union members at work was against the union contract.
- chasd00 3y agomy wife is a teacher, some of her coworkers get high in the parking lot before school. The teacher union is one of the most damaging unions in existence.
- gs17 3y agoPublic sector unions in general are not great. Police unions are probably much more damaging.
- dantheman 3y agoPrison workers is even worse - their incentive is to have more prisoners.
- busterarm 3y agoYeah I grew up going to NYC's public schools which are famous for this shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment_center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment_center