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minus-squareUnaware7013@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up79·1 year ago No guarantees on pay, benefits, or work rules Uuuhhhhhhh, isn’t that the current state and literally what unions are for? Setting guarantees for all that shit?
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoNo guarantee as in “theoretically, we could fold up our entire business instead of bothering to negotiate”. They won’t, of course, but it’s not liably false (IANAL) because there’s a valid weird hypothetical.
minus-squareLyrl@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoNot a hypothetical: Hostess folded, as did Yellow trucking. Unions can’t save a business from bad business decisions or destructive market forces. But businesses fold all the time, union or no union. When business is good, unions make sure the employees get a fair piece of that.
Uuuhhhhhhh, isn’t that the current state and literally what unions are for? Setting guarantees for all that shit?
No guarantee as in “theoretically, we could fold up our entire business instead of bothering to negotiate”. They won’t, of course, but it’s not liably false (IANAL) because there’s a valid weird hypothetical.
Not a hypothetical: Hostess folded, as did Yellow trucking. Unions can’t save a business from bad business decisions or destructive market forces.
But businesses fold all the time, union or no union. When business is good, unions make sure the employees get a fair piece of that.