- Personally, after working for multiple blue collar unions (commercial roofing, machinist) I don't. But I won't oppose anyone that does.
The problem is that the people that DO want them, want to force it on those that don't, usually by labor law.
- How do unions work? Can a place just not hire union workers and it takes a whole profession to unionize to make them effective?
- 68% of Americans supposedly support unions: https://news.gallup.com/poll/694472/labor-union-approval-rel...
Yet, ~50% of Americans voted for the party that is diametrically opposed to them; a paradox.
That said, with only about ~10% of Americans being employed in a union role, it's more like the grass is greener on the other side than an actual understanding of the pros and cons of union membership.
- > actual understanding of the pros and cons of union membership
Many of us have worked in $MEGACORPS with substantial union representation among the employees, have seen what it does and how it works in practice, and as a result want nothing to do with it. I wasn't represented due to my job classification, but now due to my firsthand exposure to unions I absolutely never will be by choice.
No way, no how, not ever.
- This is why one issue wedge voting works. You may vote against something you want to vote for something you want more.
- > ~50% of Americans voted for the party that is diametrically opposed to them
Less than half of the US population voted in the last election. ~50% of Americans _who voted_ voted for the party that is diametrically opposed to unions, but that group is only ~23% of _Americans_.
- The problem with union is that it also centralizes the power to the top which also then attracts sociopaths and/or psychopaths who are better are playing the political game.
- that industry: capitalism
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11 points by chobeat 3 hours ago | 8 comments