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Originally Posted by elphenor
what good is any of it as long as workplaces are undemocratic
mandatory union law for every workplace exceeding X amount of employees
that's the bare minimum, full democratization of labor is the long term aim
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I'd be against a mandatary union law, but I support the right to organize unions with few restrictions. Unions can't be organized through decree from above, they need to be built from below. In the late Soviet period, most workplaces in the USSR and Eastern Bloc countries were formally unionized, but the union representatives were bought up and loyal to the state and strikes were usually put down. Unions that nominally represent labor but practically represent capital are very effective tools for keeping the working class passive. In Norway, the "three party cooperation" between the state, capital and labor is basically formalized and greatly limits the range of action for the unions. Only independent unions can be weapons of class struggle.