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
Well first, who gets to define what an “unreasonable request” is? To a corporation, any request is unreasonable if it costs them even a penny; that’s why we have unions in the first place. Unions exist to protect workers for being exploited, not the other way around. Making ridiculous or unreasonable demands is *against* their own interests. Every day a worker is on strike is a day they’re not making money. If a union went on strike to get gold toilets in the bathrooms, no company is going to honor that because it’s absurd, and the strike will drag on forever, meaning those workers are not getting paid. They don’t want to not get paid, they want to work, they just want to work for fair wages, fair benefits, and fair treatment. Making ridiculous demands gets them further away from that, not closer. Furthermore, unions have to vote to go on strike. Do you imagine a majority of any union would agree to strike over something totally unreasonable?
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