Robert ReichWhy do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
Rabon 🦣Arguably, without unions, we would have no minimum wage.
As Republicans (and some Democrats) have worked to destroy unions, the minimum wage has become stagnant.
The somewhat faulty argument FOR a minimum wage was to pay workers enough that they didn't need a union. Now that unions are disappearing, the minimum wage has been left to become a starvation wage.
Corporations now have their cake, are eating it and the aren't even letting the workforce have the crumbs.