At the expense of other families not a party to the monopoly.
Anti-union workers: No.
Also anti-union workers: Look at these union workers making more money than us, at our expense.
Corporate profits are unpaid wages. Non union workers can organize, it is a choice. Otherwise, continue being economically impaired by corporate shareholder and management actors on your own time. If you don’t organize against corporations, they would extract until there is nothing left (broadly speaking, some companies don’t embody this ethos, but many do).
Union support is highest amongst Gen Z, so you’re just waiting for older conservatives and anti union folks to age out for the pendulum to swing back from the damage Reagan did. 1.8M voters age 55+ age out every year, half of those folks are still in labor force participation, while 4M voters turn 18 ever year. It’s a demographics and electorate turnover story more than anything (trajectory + time horizon).
https://www.marketplace.org/2023/01/03/gen-z-is-the-most-pro... (“Marketplace: Gen Z is the most pro-union generation”)
what about corporate losses then?
It's not like the shareholders are just eating that loss out of the goodness of their hearts. Instead there are layoffs, cancelled projects, and pay cuts. All of those are workers bearing the cost of the losses.
How consistent is your ideology really?
No. That's marketing. Marketing is a strategy used to help turn a profit. Giving away that profit to shareholders makes absolutely no contribution to the ability of a business to turn a profit. Those aren't remotely close to similar.
When I asked her how the hell non-computerized typesetting was even still a job in the 80s, she looked kind of thoughtful for a minute and just said "huh".
I’m fine with people being lifted up, but it’s very frustrating when your coworkers carry no burden and do nothing. I have no idea about other industry, but in government it’s so hard to let people go that no one bothers to even start the paperwork, they just hire non-union contractors to do the actual labor. Worst of all worlds.
This is average middle America, not a tech hub in any way. I’m a fairly average dev.