I’m kinda frustrated. Living in Europe in a country where you are more or less protected against layouts, were unions are allowed to exist. Jet it is so difficult to get the people to get their head out of their butts to do some solidarity or even improve their own conditions.
Companies doesn’t respect some basic laws and rights, people has been angry for 15 years and always complaining.
Despite of that, when asking people to organize, join an union or do even at least a day of strike, people start saying that it is not worth it, that it is not important. The most they accept doing is stop to work a couple of hours to complain at the gate like a kids rant.
I know for sure that workers have power. The company makes more money per worker and day that double de amount they pay us, so stopping working would hurt them more than us. Why do people lacks so much class conciseness? It is even more hurting for people working at a desk with a suit and doing economics, it’s like they think of themselves as if they were some kind of privileged when are just workers. Why do people chicken out so much when going on strike?
I’ll just add that people are generally comfortable*. Yeah they bitch and moan about work and their employer, but for the most part they’re paying their bills, coming home and enjoying their house(or apartment), watching Netflix, going out to eat, making sure they have groceries, pursuing hobbies, and so on.
Risking all of that and having to trust that everyone else will risk it with you so that it works is a big ask. Plus there’s some potential problems that can happen with unions (see other comments) that get propagandized and blown out of proportion by companies trying to convince you they’re a bad idea.
^*not everyone, not everywhere^