fyi - NYC has started a employee ownership department. They have tied it to small businesses going out of business due to covid. The city will help the businesses, but only if they sell to the employees.
https://www1.nyc.gov/nycbusiness/article/worker-cooperatives
Unions are a massive part of this countries economy. Is it that bad? I'd rather have the workers making the calls than some CEO taking his payout.
True for large companies (although the head of the UAW was found last year with 1 million in cash in his garage)
But this program is for small businesses in new york. No chance a small business, started by some guy.... will work if sold out to the employees. Not a chance.
Yes, in practice unions are bad. They’re a nice idea in theory, in practice they’re inevitably a huge negative for productivity.
The problem is that there are so many businesses that exploit the fuck out of their workers so for those workers, unionizing seems like the only option.
I know, in theory it makes sense. In practice, it never works. And I think most businesses support and value their workers, it’s not in their interests to “exploit the fuck out of their workers”.
What about the massively succesfull unions that we already have? And it most often is in the best interest of at least large corporations to exploit the fuck out of their workers. Look at Amazon, Disney, Apple, etc...
“Massively successful”?? By what measure?? And in any case, unions a century ago were very different to unions today, as is the business environment. And no, it’s not in the interests of the corporation to exploit the fuck out of their workers - because that shit is what makes customers boycott you.
You know what the best solution for workers is?? A booming free market economy. Not centralised control.
But American companies have been exploiting slave labor overseas for decades and nothing has been boycotted. Apple has massive factories in China and India, same with Amazon and they continue to grow each year. UPS is massively successful and is fully Teamsters.
Is UPS “successful” because of the Teamsters or despite them? The Teamsters are so corrupt their name is synonymous with violence and corruption, it’s hard to see how that’s going to make a company more successful.
Re China and India - the problem in those countries is a lack of free enterprise, not a lack of centralised control. If they had more competition in the labour market employees would have more choices and not be forced to accept bad conditions - and that’s precisely why freer markets in those countries have lifted a BILLION PEOPLE out of poverty in the last few decades. Unions didn’t do that, markets did. That’s how you improve conditions, not by union corruption.
The old wobblie platform. Lovely.
How to get a business to go bankrupt 101 lol