I would posit that it is the same here; wage fixing is bad and punished, but wouldn't it be better if we had a faster mechanism for guaranteeing equity in treatment by corporations?
It’s already illegal, and people who don’t care about the law won’t care about a union agreement either.
The same court battle and settlement process would result. Or worse, everyone would be forced to strike, and all employees are legally barred from working.
I love that people are so ignorant of the history of labor struggle in the US that they don’t know that people actually did form unions to prevent their employers from murdering them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_...
Does the YouTube shooting count? Google only sent real time security updates to full time employees, leaving contractors to fend for themselves, even though they’re now a majority contractor workforce:
https://medium.com/@GoogleWalkout/invisible-no-longer-google...
And this event certainly has pushed labor organizing at the company.
See also worker deaths at Amazon:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/amazon-wa...
It doesn’t seem at all irrelevant to me that companies have a long history of compromising workers safety, unto their deaths, and especially when workers don’t organize to defend themselves.
The progress you celebrate is because people before you did this en masse, so perhaps it is a good idea to be a little more respectful and cognizant of that history.