NYC Transit Strike
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- adamfinger0
The owners that you are employed by make up a very organized class. Because they own the business and pay your salary, you are indebted to them. Are you okay with having to conform to their every whim? If they want, they can have you work long hours? Why, because if you don't, someone else will--that is, if they want to work. So you are forced to take what they have to offer. A union is there to offset that balance. It's to make it so that employers can't take advantage of you. It's there so that you start setting the rules, not them.
If you are not an owner, a union is the best method of preserving and promoting your interests (ie, increasing standard of living).
Or you can be perpetually at the mercy of your employer and deemed scab if you get in the way of a union forming.