It’s important to remember that “they” is specific people with varying goals. Similarly, merely saying “profit” doesn’t tell us anything about where the money is going.
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frezik@midwest.social 2 months agoUnions have long made businesses run better. They don’t fight unionization efforts because of profit. They do it because of control.
orcrist@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 months ago
At the expense of profit? If control is preferable to operational stability, why do so many businesses use IT vendors?
frezik@midwest.social 2 months ago
They still have a leaver on outside vendors. And yes, power is ultimately their goal. If there’s a conflict between power and profit, they choose power.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 months ago
OK just so we’re crystal, I’m only interested in fixing what’s broken. I have no time for doomerism, tedious conspiracies, or despair.
frezik@midwest.social 2 months ago
What I’m saying is that you can’t go to businesses and say “a union will make this whole place run better for everyone” and expect them to take that for an answer. Unions have to fight. Some of those fights have been bloody.
That’s not doomerism, tedious conspiracies, or despair. It’s what has happened already in the history of unions.
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Unions help to fight inflation and price gouging as well. Unions are good for the entirety of any economy in which they exist. There are decades upon decades of independent and government funded research that supports this.
theconversation.com/unions-do-hurt-profits-but-no…
home.treasury.gov/…/labor-unions-and-the-us-econo…
www.epi.org/publication/unions-and-well-being/