Posted by youcould 10/26/2024
In a free market, the company can freely negotiate with this entity, including terminating it its members masse if desired.
Absent illegal collusion between companies, in theory the companies who work with unions should end up being more productive since they will be able to attract better employees based on the better employment conditions secured by the union activity.
What many people are against is the particular regulatory structure that is present today. They have seen what happened to American manufacturing over the past decades, and unions as they are currently implemented in America seem to have played a large role.
The people who run these companies oppose this practice. Minimum wage exists because these suits would pay you less than that if they could.
People understandably got impatient waiting for the fairly straightforward game theory to play out and so they started changing the rules.
In a simpler world where companies are free to fire union workers en masse, you’d have to be pretty evil to oppose the right to unionize just to eke out the relatively tiny benefit it would bring in the short to medium term.
It’s a much simpler explanation for almost everyone who looks like they might be that evil to actually just oppose things as they currently stand. Sort of the Occam’s razor of morality.