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Unions and labour laws

Comment a comment by Andre (NomadSoul), published on 25 November 2008
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…I blame the unions. In completely ideal conditions, a union is good check and balance to ensure companies are not taking advantage of their employees and trampling the little guy. But over the decades, unions have evolved into such a worker protection entity that it has pervaded everything from marketing, R&D to even the consumer’s buying decision.

Indeed. It’s an interesting problem; there certainly needs to be some mechanism to ensure that management treats the employees fairly… but there’s fair and then there’s greedy. In an ideal world, good labour laws should negate the need for unions, and I guess they do to a limited extent. Sadly, such laws don’t go nearly far enough—at least not in Canada (I’m assuming it’s similar in the States).

So the unions get their thumbs in the pie and become preoccupied with their own self-aggrandizement, so that management starts hiring people on contract… and those poor suckers are left out in the cold. The union won’t protect them if they’re not considered "full time" employees—and thus sidesteps it’s whole original reason for existing. So what’s it there for?

Can’t anybody be trusted in this world?

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