• @ConstableJelly@beehaw.org
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    611 months ago

    “Like the companies, the trade union movement is global in the fight to protect workers,” 3F Chair Jan Villadsen said in a statement, adding that Sweden’s IF Metall union had asked 3F to help."

    Powerful stuff. I find myself anxious about retaliatory escalation as unionization continues this spike in growth.

    • @mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Corporations are already at maximum union retaliation as the default setting. The only thing left is the pinkertons, and somehow I doubt that will fly nowadays.

      • @ConstableJelly@beehaw.org
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        311 months ago

        I’d like to believe so too, but nothing spurs creative innovation like threats to power. But you’re certainly right that there’s no low-effort mode in business to unionization response. This may very well be the most they’re capable of.