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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Your boss can probably replace you. If you’re lucky, it might take a month or two, but they can. They’ll be a little bit grumpy about it but they’re not going to miss rent because you’re gone.
Workers, however, usually rely a lot more on their employer. You have one employer; they have tens to hundreds of employees.
The result is an imbalance of power. Your employer has a lot more leverage over you than you have over them. Unions are a strategy to change that – if you *and your coworkers* agree to cooperate then it becomes way harder because replacing *all of you at once* is way harder.
Teaming up with a lot of your coworkers to gain some bargaining power over your employer is a union.
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