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I don't think the answer to mistreatment is for non-unionized workers to pull the unionized workers down into the crab pot with them -- at the end of the day, we are all labor (unless you control the capital), and infighting instead of solidarity only makes labor's bargaining position worse.

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> infighting instead of solidarity

Well, it would be easier for non-unionized workers to empathize with unionized if they stopped the ridiculous cancelling/blackmailing/ostracizing of workers who take up “union work”. It’s beyond anticompetitive to go on strike while simultaneously making it career suicide for a young professional who just graduated or something from accepting what would otherwise be a career defining opportunity. The WAG is notorious for this.

Like it or not, unions have to come down pretty hard on strikebreakers, since they undermine their bargaining position. If the purpose of a strike is to withhold labor from the employer, someone who is otherwise providing labor is directly sabotaging their goal.

I could see infighting happening between the unions

Some fictional programmer union wants AI, actors union does not want AI

Both strike, who wins?

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