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That's the effect of unionizing, that is, sticking together.

Collective bargaining, indeed! A union is merely this formalised.

In the UK, you can't legally get fired without cause, regardless of being in a union or not. (You can be made redundant but shrug).

And if they hire someone else to do your job, that wasn't redundancy, that was firing under false pretenses, and you can sue.