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Without unions you already have the management and worker castes. Source: I've worked in non-union jobs for 20+ years. What unions do is provide an opportunity
by sjsdaiuasgdia 3y ago
Without unions you already have the management and worker castes. Source: I've worked in non-union jobs for 20+ years.
What unions do is provide an opportunity for the workers to collectively apply power.
Of course, there's a lot of nuance in the implementations, and of course people can be corrupt as hell.
But in no way, shape, or form did unions create the management/worker caste split. Holy hell that requires some twisted logic.
- AYBABTME 3y agoI'm just presenting the argument, which can be made. Reasonable people will disagree. In my particular experience, I always hated working unionized jobs I had and much preferred being a free actor with minimal fuss. I don't feel like "management versus workers" is a real divide in most non-union jobs I had (in which case you could say that systematizing the difference materializes the difference). But I also think it would likely be very different in different companies and industries. Unions aren't for me and I think they've had their use in the past, and I'm ambivalent as to their necessity in modern times (since governments now enforce a good set of minimums).