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points by yoyohello13 3 days ago | 0 comments
How do Employees advocate for themselves if not Unions? I've never heard any anti-union person give a good answers other than 'just trust the employer to be a good human' or 'wait until it gets bad enough that the market sorts it out' which is just laughable.
[–] howunfortunate 2 days ago
> How do Employees advocate for themselves if not Unions?

The same way you advocate for getting good bananas, good streaming services, or good laptops.

You only make voluntary transactions you want to make. If you don't like what a job is offering, take another job or start your own business.

If you don't like ANY of the bananas being produced by ANYONE, this probably isn't because all banana producers are moustache twirling villains. It probably has something to do with the underlying realities of banana production, supply, and demand.

[–] Viliam1234 2 days ago
> It probably has something to do with the underlying realities of banana production, supply, and demand.

Such as the fact that you don't need the banana in order to survive, so they have little blackmailing power over you.