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Jagr_68 posted...

Advocate for better leadership, assert into being a liaison themselves, or if they're dissatisfied with that endresult, apply to better jobs with better conditions.

That's as fair and real as I'm keeping it.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/17/15290674/union-labor-movement-europe-bargaining-fight-15-ghent

But most European countries, and some other rich countries outside the US, have figured out an ingenious way around this. Unions there bargain not at the company level but at the sector level negotiating for all workers in an entire industry rather than just one company or workplace.

In France, for example, an employers' federation representing restaurants will negotiate with a union representing restaurant workers. They reach a deal, and then the government "extends" the deal to cover all restaurants and all restaurant workers. Everyone in the sector enjoys the pay and benefits that the union got employers to agree to.

Because every company, no matter how many of its employees are in a union, has to abide by the same pay and benefit deal, companies have less incentive to discourage union membership. Firms with more union members dont have any competitive disadvantage relative to firms with fewer: Theyre all paying the same wages and offering the same benefits. And employment growth doesnt necessarily vary among firms based on how many workers are in unions, so theres no reason for union membership to decay as firms with more union members do worse.

Now the question is how do we get to this?