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Originally Posted by Via Chicago
they fought for their benefits over a very long period of time, why would you denigrate them for having done so? its not magic, its constant struggle. shes your peer in the struggle for better pay and better conditions and better rights. that struggle never ends because as we've seen it will be wrestled right back without a second thought. if you want the same sorts of advantages, it comes with mobilization and activism and organizing within your given profession. workers hold all the power in the world but it only matters if its exercised. or you can just keep bashing unions and wondering why their quality of life is better and why you're getting taken advantage of in the private sector.
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I'm a big supporter of private sector unions because they are a necessary counterweight to the profit motive of corporations. No such profit motive exists in the public sector. If anything, the interests are reversed and it's the union that has the profit motive and the elected officials are dependent on the votes of those same union members to win re-election. Public sector union members essentially get to vote for their boss, so they'll obviously choose whoever is promising to give them the biggest raise. This has been the story for the past many decades and part of why the City of Chicago is so broke right now. Lightfoot, to her credit, is trying to break this cycle even if it costs her dearly in the next election. She is the one displaying the real courage here.
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