
Collective Bargaining
When employees want better working conditions or higher salaries, they can use the union to do collective bargaining for them. In collective bargaining, union leaders will come together with corporate leaders and have discussions. If agreements can't be reached, workers will go on strike until an agreement is made or the company goes out of business. The stakes are quite high. In the old days, the corporation would sometimes just hire all new workers and start over.
The whole thing would sometimes get ugly. In the book Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, the protagonist Henry Reardon decides to just bulldoze his factory instead of being subject to the whims of the masses. Why? It was his factory, not theirs.
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