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I thought the universal consensus is that it's net benefit for the currently employed, where the product, company/shareholders and employment bears the cost. Ze
by pxmpxm 2y ago
I thought the universal consensus is that it's net benefit for the currently employed, where the product, company/shareholders and employment bears the cost. Zero sum game, with negative externalities.
In particular, flexible employment is what allowed US to recover from covid much quicker than europe, for example.
- asadotzler 2y agoIf the net benefits of not having a union accrue to the company and shareholders, perhaps having a union to balance things out is a good thing. I mean, without the workers, there is no company, management, or customer. Seems the workers should get their fair share of output and if they're not they have no way to change that except to beg or quit. With a union, collective bargaining can lead to contracts that are more balanced for workers/owners and that's a good thing for everyone because those workers are consumers too who need good pay to buy a good life to drive production of good life goods and services.