| spaceguy said:
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Ever heard the term "Killing the goose that lays the golden egg"?
Unions generally increase wages of the employees by creating an adversarial working environment and then resist changes that will increase productivity and quality improvements which would justify the increased wages. Eventually, companies find that they can offshore these jobs resulting in dramatically lower costs, higher quality and far fewer labour issues.
As an example of what I mean, several years ago I was working at a company that was trying to develop a SIRI like mobile app/directory assistance product with a large telecommunications company. Six months into the development of this product the union management decided that this violated their contract and that all DA services had to be handled by union operators and the project was "delayed"; the project still hasn't been restarted. Millions of dollars of revenue lost to prevent the union from losing 0 jobs.
