I get where you’re coming from but unions should not be mandated, they need to be formed for the actual workers that want things to change for the better. Just look at Sweden for a good example of how to implement unions at almost all workspaces without the need for the state to be involved.
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Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
As far as I’m concerned, unionization should be government mandated for every company everywhere in every industry.
But unfortunately we live in hell.
Iseja@lemmy.world 3 days ago
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Look at Belgium for a good example of how they are mandated.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
So how do they do it?
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
With stronger union protections, necessary unions will form organically.
Iseja@lemmy.world 2 days ago
By not getting the state involved at all. All negotiations happens between the workers and the companies with about 88% of workers in Sweden having a collective agreement. All workers also have the right legally to join or start a union and unionbusting is illegal. If the company doesn’t want a collective agreement it usually results in strikes such as the ongoing one against Tesla that has been going on since 2023.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
But union busting being illegal is the state getting involved.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Doesn’t need government” proceeds to name gov protection
zbyte64@awful.systems 2 days ago
The pinkertons have entered the chat
Don’t worry, the America’s free market provides many paramilitary groups to shutdown those pesky unions and curious journalists. No need for government involvement!
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That’s the way it works in France (and other EU countries, I assume?). We literally have to have a workers reprensative council past a certain number of employees.
tflyghtz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I live in Germany. Here its not mandated to have a workers representative council, but you are entitled to be allowed to make one. A workers representative council is distinct from a union, though.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
As a Canadian living north of the nut-hatch, I wish I had the money to excercise my dual citizenship and get out of here to Portugal, or anywhere else in the EU.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
That would be normal in a socialist society, not in a capitalistic one.
slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Absolutely this. We need mandated unions for every single company that exists. And with loopholes closed, like offshoring/outsourcing, corporate “headquarters” is a closet in Delaware, etc.