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I never understood why corps in US (even in Canada) aren’t regulated enough like how they are in Europe for example, imagine getting fired just for asking for a union!? Instead of useless crys and wars over musk’s next move, how about actually dealing with the real problems?

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It’s illegal to terminate employees for attempting to unionize.

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/di...

and how does enforcement look?

In the US? It's an incredibly slow process with a designated separate court system with seperate labor laws. Oh yeah and solidarity strikes are illegal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_action

The police can't be defunded but the US National Labor Relations Board had to resduce it's staff by 50% from 2002 to 2022, with bipartisan support!

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/civil-rights/37839...

Getting better. Certainly, it’s a long road ahead in the fight against labor violations and abuse.

https://www.nlrb.gov/news-publications/news/news-releases

Because in the US it‘s easy to call anything “socialism“ that is labelled a “social market economy“ in most other places in the world.

It certainly doesn't help that some American leftists call themselves "democratic socialists" while having views that are more inline with European social democracies.

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