Unionization In the Time of Automation
Unions have recently won organizational votes at New York City-area branches of Starbucks and Amazon, companies they have been trying to crack into for years.
There is good reason to think that workers enticed into voting for unions in the 2020s will come to regret their decision. Modern unions are generally bad for economies, bad for polities, bad for companies, bad for employees and bad for civic life generally. They seem particularly ill-fitted for the current moment, as both the Starbucks and Amazon examples illustrate.
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