Why can’t a Labor Union have unlimited (or ridiculously unreasonable) demands?

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Some large corporations and government divisions have labor unions and I never really understood how those work…

They can stop a whole corporation or public infrastructure unless their demands are met, but then, why can’t they have unreasonable requests?

In: Economics

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Like everyone is saying, the workers know that making absurd demands won’t get them anywhere. If their jobs involve serving the public some way like teachers or government workers, it would even turn public opinion against them.

Also, labour negotiations involve a lot of lawyers, professional negotiators and executives. They don’t want to waste their time on impossible requests from the other side either. Nobody makes any money until they make a deal so it’s in everyone’s best interest to figure it out.

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