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I'm kinda frustrated. Living in Europe in a country where you are more or less protected against layouts, were unions are allowed to exist. Jet it is so difficult to get the people to get their head out of their butts to do some solidarity or even improve their own conditions.

Companies doesn't respect some basic laws and rights, people has been angry for 15 years and always complaining.

Despite of that, when asking people to organize, join an union or do even at least a day of strike, people start saying that it is not worth it, that it is not important. The most they accept doing is stop to work a couple of hours to complain at the gate like a kids rant.

I know for sure that workers have power. The company makes more money per worker and day that double de amount they pay us, so stopping working would hurt them more than us. Why do people lacks so much class conciseness? It is even more hurting for people working at a desk with a suit and doing economics, it's like they think of themselves as if they were some kind of privileged when are just workers. Why do people chicken out so much when going on strike?

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[โ€“] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Living in Europe in a country where you are more or less protected against layouts, were unions are allowed to exist. Jet it is so difficult to get the people to get their head out of their butts to do some solidarity or even improve their own conditions.

It sounds like you're in an anti-Union country that is only pretending to care about worker's rights.

Here in the horrible individualistic pro-capitalism USA workers are struggling to get their unions recognized, largely because once a union is organized there is a whole industry of advocates and lawyers who will push for the bargains to be made, for those bargains to be (at least slightly) better than the law, and for the rights in law or bargain to be protected viciously. And even if you're not in a union, there are sharp public and private mechanisms to respect labor rights.

Not all of the USA is anti-union, and the parts that arent can and do strike when they don't get an honest and fair deal.

some unions in the us are also kinda corrupt, as they buddy up with the conservatives, mostly the president of the union to whoever is in charge for personal favors.