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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Unions hurt productivity and in the long term make companies and countries less competitive.

A system where labor benefits from increased productivity needs to be found. Unions are not and have never been the answer

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/UnionizationEconomicPerformance.pdf

Also, unions are regularly linked to criminal activity, strong arming, and organized crime

https://www.unionfacts.com/article/crime-and-corruption/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1147700

Lots of people that blindly support the perceived short term benefits of unionization in Lemmy. But, this are facts whether you like them or not

Long term, unions are bad for everyone

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Except most developed countries have strong unions and guess what, most everyone is happy with them and the workers actually have rights and get paid a fair wage. Only in the worker-trampling corporate-hellscape that is the US someone would think this nonsense.

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