People think they miss manufacturing jobs. They don’t. They miss social benefits guaranteed by a union.

40 hour work week? Union won.
Worker’s comp insurance? Union won.
Overtime pay? Union won.

@jhankins This is absolutely true, but I do think people miss feeling like their labor is producing something useful to people like themselves, rather than being a complete and utter bullshit job making their boss even richer and making people like themselves deal with more and more bullshit in their everyday lives.

@dalias @jhankins well said, and also not needing tertiary education to be able to afford a house, which is harder to crack.

(Also blue collar cultural values, but unions rightly deserve some credit for that).