We have a strong legal system that protects employees. We should start working on it and strengthening it so every employee has protections instead of these hived off unions.

Unions started for factory workers and farm workers too when they had no rights. It’s entirely unnecessary and disruptive now to rely on unions that simply use an artifact of the past to bully employers and reduce productivity.

In America, we have monetary as well as legal safety nets. Unions are used as political means to create vote banks in our current times. I think if politicians wants to mobilize voters to suit their own agenda, they should do it on their own time and on their own dime.

Also: Union pension funds are humongous and public sector and govt employees pension funds are the main reason why we have pension fund liabilities and the some state’s economy gets manipulated.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing-strategy/090...

The California teachers Union is the most powerful union and voting block followed by correction officers union. The amount of political power they wield is often hidden from most people esp those who frequent places like HN. Tech workers Union and Starbucks unions make no sense. A powerful union needs hundreds of thousands of members. And billions of dollars. If tech workers and Starbucks employees Unionise, the entire economy of the USA would crumble and collapse simply from the macro economic impact.

Not to mention their power over how our cities are run. Case in point, why can’t we build modular homes quickly in San Francisco so there is more housing and affordable ones at that. Unions oppose it. And people end up talking and fighting about NIMBYs and prop 13 by brainwashing kids in public schools(unionized teachers) and colleges(again unionized work force in state univs).

Some little squirt still in high school will spout off about NIMBYs and I want to know where they got it from…instead of availing an education, we have an uneducated public school trained political mob. Kids just out of school would speak about Prop 13 and I am like..dude, pay your bills and your taxes. I mean..get a job first before you want to get grandma to sell her home to build your ‘walkable city’.

https://norcalapa.org/2020/12/san-francisco-trade-unions-at-...

Most importantly: The amount of meddling and damage that this has caused our education sector is irreparable and irreversible. We have an entire generation of politically uneducated ignorant gaslit and easily manipulated youth because of the agenda driven public education they recd from our hard earned tax dollars. Worst investment ever.

These youngsters that are the products of a useless public education system wanting to form unions while working in airconditioned work spaces are simply reflecting their education. Rebels without a cause probably never saw the James Dean movie.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Cause

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/558095/facts-about-rebel...

Unions are outdated. The law is universal for all in the USA..and it is a superior and effective system because it protects everyone from workers to employees to immigrants rights to undocumented workers. We should work on the law of the land and not on divisive pseudo political outfits like unions.