NYC Transit Strike
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- adamfinger0
I think you have very little understanding of unions.
Unions have, to varying degres, become bureaucratic nightmares run by corrupt leaders. This is not always the case nor should it be the case. But that corruption stems more from leaders screwing over their own rank-and-file rather than them screwing over their employers. In fact, I can't think of any example, in the history of unionism, whereby a union has wielded more power than the employer.
Look at the auto-industry. As soon as it become cost effective, manufacturing jobs were shipped down to Mexico, despite efforts by unions. Why? Because the unions didn't have any power. Same with apparal manufacturing, IT work, etc.
I don't know what fantasy-world you live in in which unions have accumulated vast amounts of power that they can hold over people.
But I'd like to live there because I don't think employers should have any power.