unions

There are many corrupt unions, and many unions that are dominated by bad actors.

Take the recent push by California unions for a $15hr minimum wage - except for their own members.

Yet, they can't put two and two together and see that this is how the unions work everywhere.

The article just gives a single paragraph to blame the unions and doesn't really dive into the issue.

The unions prop these people up and force a company to pay them way more than they are worth.

When a country doesn't have labor unions fighting for workers rights, these sorts of issues happen.

The most productive places in the US also have relatively strong labor laws and labor unions.

In some countries you might even get worker's rights like workers councils, unions on the board,...

It's not a coincidence that the startup scene is nearly non-existent where unions have a strong presence (France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway).

If you work for example for Volkswagen, every factory in the world will have strong unions, only the US factory won't.

Compared to Sweden, where the factory owners and unions started to negotiate decades earlier, the deals after that were always worse.

Just like how unions fought for a $15/hour wage increase, but they are exempt.

To consider function types, or unjustified assumptions about bitfield unions, or use of parentheses to control nesting of arrays and pointers in declaration "strange" one must be averse to the C language to the point of intolerance.

"Unions give skilled labor immensely greater negotiation leverage, as the alternative for employers would be hiring lower skilled workers." Most higher-skilled employees want to maximize their pay.

Unions also tend to be anti-technology as technology tends to automate peoples jobs.

Unions are generally for people that 1) Can easily be replaced.

Unions are also the ones opposing services like Uber.