I often hear of trade unions collectively bargain over redundancy packages but I don’t know how that works. How can a redundant employee bargain with an employer when they have nothing to bargain with if their job is already gone or in the process of being made redundant?
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The point of a union is that it’s not just the employees who’re directly affected who are throwing their weight around.
If a company has just made 20% of its employees redundant, it’s probably not in a *great* position to deal with a bunch more of its employees going on strike. So if the union head comes up and says “Hey, those guys you fired? Yeah, some of them were in our union. You’re going to pay those guys, the ones that were union members, a redundancy package or all the union members still working for you are going to strike” then the employer is in a tough bind and may well agree.
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