But someone please help me out 😅 it’s come up in my life enough, but never with much depth apparently. Everyone always seemed to assume we were all on the same page.
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You work for a boss, your boss comes in on Monday and says “You have to hop around on one foot all day and cluck like a chicken or I’ll fire you.” Without a union it’s up to you to argue with the boss and possibly get fired.
With a union all your coworkers go “Wow, that’s messed up, if you make OP hop on one foot and cluck like a chicken then we’ll stop working until you stop being so ridiculous.” And they can also help out like you may be bad at arguing with your boss, but Bill over there has a way with words so he’ll be the one to talk to the boss for you.
If you’re US you probably heard a lot about the actor strike and writer’s strike recently. The actors and writers had a long list of “you’re being seriously messed up here” for the bosses, the film studios, and the thing is that these things never affect everyone equally. Ryan Reynolds doesn’t have to worry if studios say they don’t want to pay actors for streaming TV shows, but for Bob the small time TV actor it can make the difference between being able to afford ramen or being able to afford hamburger helper. But! Ryan Reynolds also agrees to refuse to work until everyone’s treated well, because if the film studios tried to say they didn’t have to pay any actor named Ryan then Bob’s also going on strike for Ryan Reynolds.
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