@ISIDEWITHQuestionseconomyStarted 10yrs agoActive 3 days ago

Do you believe labor unions help or hurt the economy?

Trade unions in India have experienced tremendous growth in the past five years. The Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), affiliated to the Congress party, has emerged as the biggest of the seven central trade unions, with a membership of 33.3 million.

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58%
Help
42%
Hurt
33%
Help
38%
Hurt
18%
Help, in theory but have recently become corrupt and should have their powers limited
4%
Hurt, I support some private unions but am strongly against public unions
7%
Help, but ban their ability to make political donations

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 @B296Q7Nanswered…3 days3D

The labour unions and corporates and the government should coordinate and co-operate just like it is done in sweden

 @B23G26Yanswered…4wks4W

Help, though they can improve working conditions and wages for the workers but their activities can also slow down and hurt the economy

 @9T6WGJXanswered…4mos4MO

Hurt, but the aim is to help the people. A good economy doesn't necessarily help the people. Therefore, I support them

 @9SR9FVPanswered…4mos4MO

It depends on different scenarios. If the union is created with a sole purpose for extortion of lower wage workers and other corruption then yeah hurtful but other then that if it doesn't harms the cause of voicing ones right to protest and makes one gets heard amidst the market chaos then helpful I guess.

 @9LP7SQ4 answered…9mos9MO

It is the role of country to look after its people and labour union help in securing worker rights and fair wage but at the same the it should be fair and shouldn’t hurt the economy a lot

 @9HRZR58answered…1yr1Y

It depends on certain unions. Suspicious unions which involve in unfair activites and are hurting the economy should be investigated and banned from forming again.

 @9FQ56TPanswered…1yr1Y

depends on the need to strike

 @9CQ4QXVanswered…1yr1Y

Politicians heading unions must be banned, only workmen should have representation and politicians should not have any direct role in any union.

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Volkswagen Faces Explosive Strikes Over Plant Closures and Job Cuts

Tens of thousands of Volkswagen workers will participate Monday in strikes at plants across Germany, labor union IG Metall said, marking the largest walkouts at the carmaker’s domestic operations since 2018.The walkouts, which are planned to last several hours, follow weeks of collective bargaining negotiations during which VW refused to rule out mass layoffs and potential plant closures in its home market — drastic measures the company says are necessary to prop up its fortunes amid competition from China and weaker European demand.A so-called “peace obligation” between workers and the company, which prohibited industrial action, expired on Saturday, allowing strikes to take place from Sunday at virtually all of Volkswagen’s German factories.“If necessary, this will become the toughest wage dispute Volkswagen has ever seen,” IG Metall’s chief negotiator Thorsten Groeger said in a statement Sunday. “How long and intense this dispute will be is Volkswagen’s responsibility at the negotiating table.”“Volkswagen has set our collective bargaining agreements on fire, and instead of extinguishing this fire during three rounds of negotiations, the management board keeps throwing open barrels of gasoline onto it,” he added.The walkouts will be the first large-scale strikes that Volkswagen has faced since 2018, according to IG Metall, when 50,000 workers idled plants over pay. Although the work stoppages will last only a few hours, it is possible that 24-hour warning strikes could be called later this year. Indefinite strikes could also be called as a last resort, but only after members have been consulted again, IG Metall said.The strikes represent a fresh headache for Europe’s largest automaker, which saw operating profit for the first nine months of the year tumble by a fifth from the previous year, as its flagship brand struggled. Vehicle sales also slipped on particularly weak demand in China, where it is losing market share to Chinese electric vehicle brands.