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The worker does not have to make a profit. The worker's interest is in earning a wage doing work that doesn't suck in conditions that don't suck. In the past unions were the voice of the worker to improve working conditions, wages, and address safety issues to EVERYBODY's advantage including the employer.
But when the unions no longer are interested in working with an employer but rather assume a right to whatever the employer has with no concern for consequences, the unions become thugs, tyrants, and destructive to the process.
The worker does not put his savings and working capital at risk in a new venture. The worker does not lose anything but future earnings if a business goes under. It is the employer who is responsible for the infrastructure, overhead, liability risks, insurance,....
I've seen too much bad behavior by employers to break out the violins for them.
The country worked a lot better when we had strong unions. That was before the wealthy bought our government and got Free Trade and Right to Work and all the other stupidity.
"The problem with Capitalism is Capitalists... they're too damned greedy"- Herbert Hoover.
Exactly.
The country worked a lot better when we had most able bodied Americans working and paying their share of taxes; when 50% of Americans were not on some sort of government benefits.
The country worked a lot better when most children were born into two-parent homes and benefitted from having a mom and dad.
The country worked a lot better before government became the enormous, bloated, ever expanding, ever more intrusive monstrosity that it has become.
The country worked a lot better when unions understood that companies have to make a profit in order to exist and did not demand more than the employers could pay and still make a reasonable profit.
The country worked a lot better. . . .we could go on and on.
But you still can't get around the fact that unions demanding ever more from a failing or struggling business is a fool's venture and it will be far more likely that it will be the union that will hurt the worker and not the employer.