Comment on People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.
myplacedk@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The countries I know of where employers have decent vacation etc and don’t hate the employers, all have strong unions.
If unions doesn’t work, then maybe you are doing it wrong.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
AFAICT not really true for Austria (where I live), we get 5 weeks of vacation, yet I don’t hear very much about unions and am not myself a member of one
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 18 hours ago
These things are subject to cycles. Things are shit, people unionize, things become a bit less shitty, people stop unionizing, things start getting shitty again, rinse and repeat. Most of Europe is ending the part of the cycle where people thought they didn’t a union anymore.
Dionysus@leminal.space 16 hours ago
Unions are for states which are run for pure profit growth governments that focus on corporate health over humans.
Countries which have this baked in at the Government level typically don’t need them because the government is the union.
That is not, and never has been the case in the US.