• spectre [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      13 days ago

      We should be careful with this sort of partial truth. In my area, there is an industry where the non-union workers do make more than the union workers. This, of course, is because the company has to compete against the union wage and adds some more on top as a “pls don’t unionize and make this worse” sort of counter-propaganda. It’s worth it to them.

      It is also because the local union for this industry is strangled by liberal leadership, which is elected by its disengaged membership.

      I want to present this anecdote because I don’t think this situation is uncommon, so when we simplify the situation down to somebody with anti-union brainworms we may end up looking foolish or just wrong to them.