The 4,000 Year History of Workers Unions

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Labour unions are the hot topic of today, from Hollywood actors and
screenwriters all the way to McDonalds fry cooks and Amazon warehouse
workers

There’s a chance that your place of work has a union of its own. Or unions!
Maybe you’ve been in the situation where you didn’t know which workers
collective to join. Or maybe you’re an employer who has had to negotiate with striking employees time and time again. They are
basically all the same except they have different coloured hats.
From the outside, the difference from one union to another can seem trite or non-existent. Like Monty Python’s ‘People’s Front of Judea’ versus the ‘Judean People’s Front’.

But you only need to speak to a union leader to learn that their group
bargaining is better than the other guy’s group bargaining!
If you’re feeling confused, relax. That’s normal!
But maybe you’ve never encountered a union. Maybe your boss - or your
boss’s boss - wants nothing to do with them. Maybe you’ve wondered why
unions and companies are at each other’s throats all the time.
Are unions really the enemy of business or is the rivalry between them a spin

tactic from fat cats? Are they a thing of a past or is their history just getting

started? And why can’t you wear white after Labour Day?

Whatever your first-hand experience, unions aren’t going away any time soon so today we’re going to pick apart the picketers’ legacy to understand where they came from and where they’re going.

It’s time to learn how history works as we explore “The History of Unions”.
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Written By: Sam Ely

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