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"The corporations should live in fear of the government, not an independent union."

I think that membership funded union would be much likely to protect worker rights than tax funded government.

But the union has little to no legislative power, only relying on lobbying and private legal cases, at which point you end up competing with non-union entities who have a lot more money.

A general strike has a lot of power. Which is why they are banned in many countries.

It's not not always been the case that the unions were the weaker non-state actor, in fact they used to rival political parties and business cartels in their ablity to lobby/negotiate.

And in some countries that power havent completely faded away.

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