RE: SHAME ON GREYHOUND 🚍 🚌
So finding that "correct value" isn't simple, and I've never run a business, but I suspect business owners are really happy to listen to negotiation. It's like you're helping them solve the puzzle and arrive at the proper price point.
You know what occurred to me as I read this? Violence!
Negotiation is a peaceful approach. It makes room for sensibility on both sides. Forces people ro put their ingenuity to use.
Strike suddenly sounds like violence to me. Or maybe bullying is the word. The unions are the ones bullying the business owners. The business owners cannot do anything about it (thanks to laws).
Because striking workers can't be fired (or denied pay), unions can strike at will, even at the slightest whiff of disagreement. They have almost nothing to lose while the company and customers have everything to lose. I don't know why but violence rings in my head.
Perhaps it reminds me of my school mates who would rather employ force to solve issues rather than dialogue.
I'm not sure how the inner workings of unions go, but I wouldn't be surprised if sometimes union leaders actually have a motivation for people to be underpaid, so that now they have fodder to begin a strike
In a way, this could be true. I mean, if workers didn't have the option of strike or no reason to, the union leaders would probably have to get other jobs
Exactly!! You're right on imo
Going on strike is propped up and made a thing because of the use of violence
(ie employers aren't allowed to fire employees who strike, or are forced to allow unions in the first place, or whatever)
So going on strike just wouldn't be effective at all if it wasn't for coercive policies that surround it..
when there's free association across the board it just doesn't make practical sense to strike
(to suddenly breach your commitment in a way that's supposed to cause financial harm to someone)
I don't blame people for using the system as it currently exists..
As long as the laws exist like this, you understand why people will use it and do what's in their best interest
but ideally the laws would change, and then everything makes more sense and long term it's better for everyone especially the workers when there's more negotiation and less "I'm going on strike"