• sab@kbin.social
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      Well, it could happen, but you will never be able to trust it. Your good boss has a heart attack, someone else takes over, they need to increase profits, and bam. Wages and benefits are cut.

      The underlying problem is an imbalance of power in favour of owners over workers; this is the problem unionisation solves, and it cannot be solved any other way.

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      I’m a printer and I have better pay, benefits and more vacation and sick days than I would in a union shop. There would be zero benefit to me and my coworkers if we unionized.

      Decent employers exist but they are definitely the exception.

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        Talk about completely missing the fucking point Holy shit, and this is why we don’t have unions. They need a collective to work properly and have an effect on the industry you disciding its bad because there isn’t enough backing is the exact problem that causes there to be few decent employers for fucks sake…grow the union and watch its power to work for you grow.

    • WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com
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      Look, I’m probably the exception here, but someone I know works at a company as a manager. He is more than willing to work with the union guys there with anything, but the real problem is that a lot of them get very lazy. Like, not doing their job lazy. And it’s near impossible to get rid of them because the union will spin it some other way. That’s the one real negative to unions, but they’re not the silver bullet to every industry