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An employee being fired means losing 100% of their income.
Clearly there's an asymmetry when negotiating with large companies. Therefore unions are fair.
This makes Unionen a single point of failure: when bargaining with company, it's almost always the lowest possible rise (usually lower than inflation) for the yearly salary rise (which should by design compensate the inflation).
Don't want to shit yourself during a shift? Just go work somewhere else and we'll find someone else to exploit into pissing themselves.
I'm by no means a Musk fan but its a free country, Tesla shouldn't have to be held hostage to these people, no ones forcing them to work there.
If you look at the broader spectrum and compare US workers rights with most of the EU, Europes fight was worth it and these have been gained by literally dying for the cause before unions appeared. It has gone overboard in places like Italy, but the workers right certainly did not and would have never come from the employers.
The world is not the same everywhere.
I for one am not sure I would make that trade.
Health insurance, paid holidays, sick days paid, the unemployment benefits are vastly superior.
This is a comprehensive and unbiased overview, I think
https://russianvagabond.com/european-vs-us-salaries-why-you-...
>to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power
A union is none of those things. (Yes, there are instances where they have done all of those things before, but we seem to have pretty much solved that problem)