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It's quite telling of HN that this perfectly reasonable comment is the most downvoted.

I also enjoy the ignorant response implying governments are responsible for worker protections, not the organized labour that pushed for those regulations in the first place. The same meager protections that the current anti-labour government would love to roll back.

If you look at the advancements in worker protections in recent years, they do not come from unions. Paid maternity/paternity leave, higher wage floors, pay equality, paid sick leave... these are all being mandated by governments and they apply to all workers, not by unions that represent one industry.

Those advancements that you speak of were all pioneered by labor unions. And in most states they were also negotiated by labor unions, who negotiated directly with legislators.

The fatalism, for someone who clearly prides themselves on thinking outside the box, is just incredible.