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@ISIDEWITHQuestionsEconomyStarted 12yrs agoActive 4wks ago

Do you believe labor unions help or hurt the economy?

Do you believe trade unions help or hurt the economy?

Labor unions represent workers in many industries in the United States. Their role is to bargain over wages, benefits, working conditions for their membership. Larger unions also typically engage in lobbying activities and electioneering at the state and federal level.

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Response rates from 53.3k New Zealand voters.

71%
Help
29%
Hurt
53%
Help
27%
Hurt
9%
Help, in theory but have recently become corrupt and should have their powers limited
3%
Hurt, I support some private unions but am strongly against public unions
8%
Help, but ban their ability to make political donations

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 @9FB6HBTfrom British Columbia  answered…3yrs3Y

Support unions for publicly funded jobs such as teachers and nurses as they have limited competitive options in the job market. Against trade unions.

 @BCPP4XPanswered…4wks4W

Both, they help the people who don't have a voice, but can be arguementative over the wrong things.

 @B9DNBF5answered…4mos4MO

Both, unions are currently being weponized by the left to make the current government's job harder. However I believe they still have a place.

 @B7H95BBanswered…7mos7MO

Neither, they help the people they represent which isn't inherently good or bad for the wider economy

 @9D7S5YYanswered…3yrs3Y

It depends on the profession

 @9D7DD56answered…3yrs3Y

Hurt the economy, but they were never about growing the pie, they were about fairly dividing it.

 @B2GSZQNanswered…1yr1Y

Unions should act as a personnel regulator to protect both an unwitting employer and employees from abuses.

 @9HK9YD6 answered…2yrs2Y

The unions of supporters with Maori and pakeha with decision was based by legend former US president Donald Trump and former UK Prime minister's office dramatic for power limited

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…1yr1Y

Volkswagen Faces Explosive Strikes Over Plant Closures and Job Cuts

Tens of thousands of Volkswagen workers will participate Monday in strikes at plants across Germany, labor union IG Metall said, marking the largest walkouts at the carmaker’s domestic operations since 2018.The walkouts, which are planned to last several hours, follow weeks of collective bargaining negotiations during which VW refused to rule out mass layoffs and potential plant closures in its home market — drastic measures the company says are necessary to prop up its fortunes amid competition from China and weaker European demand.A so-called “peace obligation” between workers and the company, which prohibited industrial action, expired on Saturday, allowing strikes to take place from Sunday at virtually all of Volkswagen’s German factories.“If necessary, this will become the toughest wage dispute Volkswagen has ever seen,” IG Metall’s chief negotiator Thorsten Groeger said in a statement Sunday. “How long and intense this dispute will be is Volkswagen’s responsibility at the negotiating table.”“Volkswagen has set our collective bargaining agreements on fire, and instead of extinguishing this fire during three rounds of negotiations, the management board keeps throwing open barrels of gasoline onto it,” he added.The walkouts will be the first large-scale strikes that Volkswagen has faced since 2018, according to IG Metall, when 50,000 workers idled plants over pay. Although the work stoppages will last only a few hours, it is possible that 24-hour warning strikes could be called later this year. Indefinite strikes could also be called as a last resort, but only after members have been consulted again, IG Metall said.The strikes represent a fresh headache for Europe’s largest automaker, which saw operating profit for the first nine months of the year tumble by a fifth from the previous year, as its flagship brand struggled. Vehicle sales also slipped on particularly weak demand in China, where it is losing market share to Chinese electric vehicle brands.

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