> Unionisation pressures (...) It boggles the mind how basic mechanisms to protect workers from health and safety issues and overall abuses are often mindlessl

> Unionisation pressures (...) It boggles the mind how basic mechanisms to protect workers from health and safety issues and overall abuses are often mindlessly parroted as contributing to a company's problems. Listen, if you are incapable of treating employees as people or even lookout for their own personal safety, the problems are not caused by workers getting together to do something to save themselves. If your company fails at this fundamental level, the failure lies in the way your company is managed. You are the problem if you want workers to work nights and weekends. You are the problem if you depend on workers sleeping in the office or factory floors to meet arbitrary deadlines. If your managers try to argue their company can cease to exist if it can no longer subject workers to all kinds of abuse, your company should not exist at all, and the world will be a much better place without it.