[MrMetlHed]

Quick search suggests that United Food and Commercial Workers International Union has 1.3m members, so why not? And a union isn't always the best solution for some places, so it's easy for me to imagine smaller companies not having one while larger ones do. Or different unions for different situations and types of work.

(edited to add: Obviously the UFCW is not the type of prestige guild the WGA is. Unionizing probably isn't always the best solution, but some amount of work in tech -- QA for example (https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/2/23489932/activision-blizz...) -- could be unionized under that type of system, while other employees become members of more powerful guilds that command higher salaries.)

[briffle]

The other thing is, you don't need everyone covered. All the other grocers know that someone can just quit and go work at the grocery store down the road and get a certain level of pay and benefits, so they need to at a minimum, meet those same benefits to keep their employees. So it raises everyone's standard in an area.