Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• slappyfuck@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Absolutely this. We need mandated unions for every single company that exists. And with loopholes closed, like offshoring/outsourcing, corporate “headquarters” is a closet in Delaware, etc.

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• Iseja@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I get where you’re coming from but unions should not be mandated, they need to be formed for the actual workers that want things to change for the better. Just look at Sweden for a good example of how to implement unions at almost all workspaces without the need for the state to be involved.

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  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Look at Belgium for a good example of how they are mandated.

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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So how do they do it?

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    • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      With stronger union protections, necessary unions will form organically.

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    • Iseja@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      By not getting the state involved at all. All negotiations happens between the workers and the companies with about 88% of workers in Sweden having a collective agreement. All workers also have the right legally to join or start a union and unionbusting is illegal. If the company doesn’t want a collective agreement it usually results in strikes such as the ongoing one against Tesla that has been going on since 2023.

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      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But union busting being illegal is the state getting involved.

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      • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “Doesn’t need government” proceeds to name gov protection

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      • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The pinkertons have entered the chat

        Don’t worry, the America’s free market provides many paramilitary groups to shutdown those pesky unions and curious journalists. No need for government involvement!

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• fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s the way it works in France (and other EU countries, I assume?). We literally have to have a workers reprensative council past a certain number of employees.

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  • tflyghtz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I live in Germany. Here its not mandated to have a workers representative council, but you are entitled to be allowed to make one. A workers representative council is distinct from a union, though.

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  • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a Canadian living north of the nut-hatch, I wish I had the money to excercise my dual citizenship and get out of here to Portugal, or anywhere else in the EU.

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• Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That would be normal in a socialist society, not in a capitalistic one.

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