How do unions work? How did they get in power and give us rights?
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Consider how businesses work in general. The boss scrapes the surplus value from his employees and pays them some percentage of what they actually provide, the lower the wage the better the margin for the boss.
This works because you alone have very little negotiating power against employers. But what if all of their employees banded together and demanded fair treatment? Pretty hard to fire *everyone* right?
Unions are the recourse of the working class against exploitation of the capitalist class.
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