- The Game Worker Hardship fund shows how unions can help laid off workers. What We Will shows how workers can come together to support each other even without fully having union representation.
- Workers who form a union can fight for lay off protections and severance packages even if they can't always save the jobs they're fighting for. This can include the right for those who were laid off to get first dibs when hiring picks back up.
- Shops with unions will have way more process for employers to follow which slows down firings. The places without a union will be the ones where it's easier to fire staff quickly, but obviously employers will feel more compelled to discipline workers who have a union so those who do have one will have to be ready for a flight probably (but that's better than not fighting at all and having zero help after a layoff imo)
More importantly people don't want their labor to negatively impact themselves and the world and with AI being shoved down our throats to take away our power it's clear that working conditions and having a say over them matter more than ever now
My main problem with this line of thinking is that you and your co-workers are your union.
Unions are just like the government. The more that you tell yourself it's someone else's problem to figure out, the less you will actually be represented by it.
Yeah whatever people work a lot, nobody wants to be responsible for their own power, etc.
But you get the union that you fight to build and the contract that you vote to accept.