• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    Unions deal with capital owners. Have very little to do with politicians. Not sure what’s your point.

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      4 days ago

      Good politicians could make and enforce laws that make unions unnecessary. Unions not only fought for higher wages but also for safer work environments or fewer working hours.

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        4 days ago

        Yeah, and then a lot of those regulations became laws.

        Like… The fact that not literally everybody has access to a politician’s ear doesn’t mean all politicians do this for the power trip. It just means that sometimes you need a bigger group behind you to get through to them. Or even a “proof of concept” kind of thing.

        Also: policies often change with the politicians, so unions help stabilising that.