• fidodo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    When companies maximize profits they call it smart and good business. When employees try to increase their wages they call it greedy and bad business.

    I wouldn’t even call unions socialist, I think they’re more like a capitalist tool for workers, so those that are already rich get to benefit from capitalism and socialism while workers benefit from neither.

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      1 year ago

      I wonder if calling unions socialist is a deliberate union busting tactic since socialism is a dirty word in the US.

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      1 year ago

      It really isn’t socialism. It’s just a way to regulate capitalism by the workers.

      I fully support the right for workers to unionize but I don’t ever see joining a union myself. It doesn’t make sense for what I do.

      Right now it’s too easy for unions to get screwed by the companies. We need quicker enforcement of the laws we have in place. Often it takes years by then the union is busted or diminished.

      We need enforcement in days. Not months or years.