Comment by humanrebar
6 years ago
> It was always clear that there was a huge misconception about what unions are, and how they work, based on the depiction of unions in popular culture or the past.
Police and teacher unions are very much current events in the U.S. between COVID and the protests.
Even on a professional level, anyone who has dealt with trade show unions or construction labor unions can attest to how awful it is to deal with these as a customer.
Many people assume unions are simply squeezing their employers, but unions also put the squeeze on customers. We had union members protesting in front of our office building and harassing our visitors for an entire month because our building owner refused to pay 3X the cost to use union labor for the drywall work.