• Edna (dey/sie)@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 day ago

    That’s why unions are essential. They can funnel the grievances of the working class towards actual improvements and force the powerful to act. They demonstrate, that a better life is possible when we stand together!

      • Edna (dey/sie)@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 day ago

        Should it? Wouldn’t that just make them different/better bosses?

        Unions can choose their own goal and politics and decide them through a democratic process. Their strength depends on membership and readiness of the workers to strike, then they can do anything.

        So much union goals seemed impossible until they were achieved and became the new norm.

        • Of the Air (cele/celes)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          edit-2
          1 day ago

          No, because the point is they wouldn’t be bosses, nobody would be bosses, that’s the point of a worker owned co-op:

          Nobody is a boss, they’re all equally responsible and have the same power as everybody else who works there.

          Like unions, they collectively/democratically decide on things, they make decisions that don’t just benefit a few at the top but all who work there and for the long-term survival of the company, not just the short term benefit of a few.