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by s1artibartfast 446 days ago
>Well, yeah, real unions tend to have more than one issue.

They also have other issues. My friends municipal power and water union actually fought management to remove WFH. It is composed of line workers and computer workers, with line workers being the majority. The line workers essentially thought it was unfair that computer/office workers could WFH while their work was in person, and bargained remove it from company policy.

IMO, a lot of problems arise from the way US union law is structured to favor entire workplaces or workforces. This leads to contested unionization votes to create the union, and once you have them, it creates monopoly effects and lots of internal politics.