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How do unions protect against layoffs? Yes, you can strike. But I think most union contracts provide provisions for layoffs and the inability to strike when lay
by orochimaaru 1y ago
How do unions protect against layoffs? Yes, you can strike. But I think most union contracts provide provisions for layoffs and the inability to strike when layoffs happen.
The main positive benefits are around overtime pay, work hours and well-defined work schedules and tasks. Now that also comes with drawbacks. Seniority decides who moves ahead, you can't easily hop into tasks that your contract has not been defined for (e.g. if you're a python dev that can do rust).
To think that a union will protect against layoffs is wishful thinking.
- spwa4 1y agoDo you really want to know? We have 150+ years or socialists studying this problem after all. The answer is to force the government to impose sky high tariffs. This forces local production and thus the employment of people locally. And if that leads to a shortage of goods and price hikes ... then it leads to a shortage of goods and price hikes.