It's funny, my one art school colleague who wears women's clothes was saying the *exact* same thing about unionization when we had talked a few months ago...
Like, it's so time intensive to unionize, and then to negotiate a contract, and then you don't get much at the end of it.
It really is a tremendous amount of work, for maybe a few thousand dollars more like three years down the line.
I've seen in the news about people who unionized back in the mid-2010s and are now on their second contracts, and some of them are starting to see really sustained gains, but for everyone else now, it's like they missed the moment, and it's too late to have that solution really take effect any time soon, maybe you're talking real change like 7-8 years down the line with a second contract, and who knows what prices and the world will look like then.
Also, like what do you even do for jobs anymore?
They're all crap and the internet is liquidating what monopolies aren't, and labor laws have been so weakened that that means of redress isn't really functional.
It's no wonder that people who've been facing this horrible economic situation for like 10-15 years are just dropping out; I mean, working doesn't get you anywhere, and nothing else really seems viable, so why not check out and work as little as possible and enjoy life?
I mean, at some point, you just have to live, instead of worrying about trying to chase down every single chance from a severely restricting pool of opportunities.
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