Nintendo allegedly violates Workers rights to organise

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Cobretti2 said:

Oh so we talking unions.

Unions are useless as tits on a bull in modern society. They are more focused on taking people's membership money than actually helping people when it all get's too hard.

That's the image corporations want people to have on unions. It's working well it seems. Nevermind that in the US the membership money you pay (in general arounf $700 a year) also in general gives you a full healthcare plan for much cheaper than you could ever get it though other means.

One major problem in the US is however that since Reagan took office unions have lost much of their power to do anything effective. In other countries unions are much more powerful and as a result can get results much easier and much more effectively than in the US, where agreements with unions tend to be non-binding or only for the members of the union and not all the employees.

For the record, I have a union membership here in Luxembourg. I pay a grand total of 0.25€ per month in membership fees, so 4€ a year.