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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
This is important. Just as management has the right to hire, fire, promote, demote, give shifts, take shifts away, give raises, cut pay, etc., unions should have the right to universally suspend the use of their labour. The threat of such an action often (but not always) remains their only recourse in the event of unfair or unreasonable management decisions. And this is where collective bargaining comes in, especially when there is a third-party arbitration.
Call this extortion if you will, dogzilla, but whatever it's called is to respond to management decisions that would otherwise amount to exploitation.
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There is another alternative.
If the individual worker thinks he is being mistreated, there is nothing in this country preventing him from looking for other work or being self-employed.
I've done this myself, where I used jobs in my early career as stepping stones to get where I wanted. When I saw that my opportunities at the company weren't what I wanted, I went elsewhere.
This worked well for me. Not once in 36 years of employment have I felt I needed any union.