How do unions work? How did they get in power and give us rights?
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I see a lot of anti union talk on this sub, and that’s sad. A union is a first world solution to a first world problem. Namely, the accumulation of capital that happens as a business grow gives the employer an amount of power that makes it impossible for employees to bargain for a fair deal. A union accumulates the bargaining power of individual employees so that they can negotiate with the employer on equal terms.
Anyone that tells you something different than this has a vested interest in destabilizing the power that unions bring employees. Employers lobby heavily to do this, and in shitty states like mine, they enact what they call “right to work” laws, which give employees a “right to work” without being a union employee.
Employers love to do this, because they return to the position where they can bargain unilaterally with their employees.
TLDR
Unions help employees get better deals from their employers. Employers give unions a bad rap so that employees will be more vulnerable to their employers’s will.
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