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There are many studies showing the workers at unionized employers report lower job satisfaction (there are also many studies showing the opposite conclusion) but it is far from a given that unionizing makes things betters for workers and this at a minimum seems to be a crap shoot based on the quality of the individual union.

https://hbr.org/2017/08/research-shows-unionized-workers-are...




This is not surprising. Union jobs pay more and have better benefits. That makes them harder to leave when you’re miserable there.


This, in my opinion, is a salient and hard to solve problem with unions.


Yes but it’s still a real problem. My mother resigned from her union-job after a too long career.

It paid well, and allowed me to go to college with no debt.

But it absolutely drained her. It was terrible toward the end.

She was a nurse. Nursing is a profession that can be greatly improved, but the unions don’t seem too interest in that.

They are much better at getting better pay and benefits.




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