AFAICT not really true for Austria (where I live), we get 5 weeks of vacation, yet I don’t hear very much about unions and am not myself a member of one
Honestly Austria is probably one of the exceptions to the rule. You’ve got a weird history with labor and economic systems post WW2 and even before that causes you guys to just kinda be doing your own thing. Hell I’m pretty sure Austria is the only occupied territories the Soviets just kinda allowed to leave their bloc.
These things are subject to cycles. Things are shit, people unionize, things become a bit less shitty, people stop unionizing, things start getting shitty again, rinse and repeat. Most of Europe is ending the part of the cycle where people thought they didn’t a union anymore.
AFAICT not really true for Austria (where I live), we get 5 weeks of vacation, yet I don’t hear very much about unions and am not myself a member of one
Honestly Austria is probably one of the exceptions to the rule. You’ve got a weird history with labor and economic systems post WW2 and even before that causes you guys to just kinda be doing your own thing. Hell I’m pretty sure Austria is the only occupied territories the Soviets just kinda allowed to leave their bloc.
These things are subject to cycles. Things are shit, people unionize, things become a bit less shitty, people stop unionizing, things start getting shitty again, rinse and repeat. Most of Europe is ending the part of the cycle where people thought they didn’t a union anymore.
Unions are for states (Nations) which are run for pure profit growth governments that focus on corporate health over humans.
Countries which have this baked in at the Government level typically don’t need Unions because the government is the union.
That is not, and never has been the case in the US.