points by epolanski 3 days ago | 0 comments
Unions worked in the pre-globalized world.
Once companies can just outsource anything from manufacturing to services the only categories that can really unionize with success are those that can de facto block everything at once (port workers are an example).
[–] keybored 3 days ago
Unions still work? They exist and do real work for their members. They can also coordinate and cooperate which is, I think, how some unions managed to put pressure on Israel. Was it maybe Italian dock workers?
That globalism has made unions not-work is just Capitalist Inevitabilism. Yeah okay I’ll give up when the billionaires have fully autonomous robot brigades. But not over globalism.
[–] epolanski 3 days ago
> Unions still work?
Go ask major US port operators whose employees make astronomic figure and if you don't bend they block the country.
[–] keybored 3 days ago
That was a rhetorical question kind of response to you saying that they don’t work, except dock/port workers. By extension I have no trouble believing that those dock worker unions work.
the US gov has for almost all of its history been anti-unions