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by Montaque 1389 days ago
The general positive rhetoric on HN for unions is a jaded. Take it from someone that lives in a country with very strong Unions that ultra strong unions are all they're cracked up to be.
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... unless you need to actually get work done.

You've never dealt with American unions. Trying to get a union worker to help you do something means filling out paperwork to do things like moving a chair from one room to the next room.

At the company level unions in the 1980s became synonymous with organized crime. They would call strikes whenever they wanted a bribe.