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It's so frustrating, your coworkers will be (rightfully) complaining about how the job sucks and how your boss keeps screwing us but the second you ask if they've ever thought of unionization they look at you like you've grown two heads and start spewing bullshit about unions being useless and dues being a waste of money.
It would be one thing if they were apprehensive about it because of the risk of the company union busting and them losing their jobs but they're actively hostile to any suggestion of collective bargaining
Anti union propaganda in full effect on them.
It's incredibly discouraging, especially since unionizing is risky and you have no idea who's going to rat you out for talking about it.
My old job, a software job, people would work nights and weekends to "make deadlines". Arbitrary deadlines made up by ownership. I'd try to tell them that they're devaluing their labor by giving it away for cheap, but they don't care. No class solidarity.
These are healthy young white men making $200k to $300k a year.
These are the same people whose knowledge of history sums up to about "isn't jim crow a burger place?" so maybe I'm asking too much of them.