Re: YELLOW CABBIES UNION RIPS INTO INNOVATION
OK, I'll bite to this ill-informed rAnDoMlY CAPITALISED rant.
Unions are responsible for:
- Weekends
- The working week (maximum working hours)
- Sick pay
- Maternity pay
- Health and safety in the workplace
...and many, many other positive things. (Well, positive from the worker's point of view, not so much from the point of view of the mill owner and the landed gentry).
Also, FWIW, most workers in the UK are not "UNIONIZED" (in the UK we would spell it unionised, and without the angry all-caps). Is the opposite of unionised ionised? (a little chemistry joke for you there).
In 2020, 23.7% of the UK workforce was part of a union, it's probably a little higher now, as the figures have been creeping up over recent years. Rather than unionisation being a cause of poor working conditions and pay in the UK, it is a direct result of it. Trade unions weren't formed in the 19th century because the mill owners were all sweetness and light, you know.
These days, we tend to think of inherited wealth and privilege as a negative thing when it comes to having a healthy society.
edit - I'll just add, that in the UK, we were having these struggles for worker's rights at the same time as those in the nascent US were still busy murdering the locals.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
