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What's the alternative (no unions) like?

• nisegami 5mo ago
  Probably a UBI-like approach? At least insofar as it changes the power dynamic in the employer/employee relationship.
  • hgs3 5mo ago
    How about forcing businesses to be owned by their employees [1]? Instead of taxing the owning class and being paid UBI peanuts, you become the owning class and reap the rewards directly. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative
• indoordin0saur 5mo ago
  Certain markets are highly competitive for labor. A good example is software engineering. In those cases, because neither the corporation has a monopoly on their tech products nor does a union have a monopoly on labor the sector can be highly productive and everyone can get rich. In such a situation it seems pointless to have a union. Why would an employee want to be beholden to both his employer and his union? Unions, as well as giving their members some negotiating power, can also limit and burden their members in many ways.
  • archagon 5mo ago
    Software engineers are gonna wish they’d unionized in the coming years.
    • Jensson 5mo ago
      Unions doesn't protect you in revolutionary times, so no. Detroits manufacturing sector was totally devastated even though they had extremely high unionization rates.
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• thrance 5mo ago
  China? Doesn't strike me as a particularly good country to work in.