There Would Be No Need For Unions

If only employers paid livable compensation, as well as enough additional money to account for any personal merit or special qualifications, there would be no need for unions at all.  Why would workers need to rely on collective bargaining to withstand employer pressure if they were already given what they need and more importantly what they deserve (on the Biblical worldview, at least, as conscience and convenience are irrelevant)?  Slippery slope fallacies are universally invalid, so unions are only called for when there has already been mistreatment or evidence of looming mistreatment.

In the workplace, exploitation can take many forms, from sexism to sexual harassment by those with enough power to shield themselves to severe underpayment.  The last of these has become a more visible problem in recent years thanks to inflation, layoffs, and large executive compensation packages.  Inflation has reduced the buying power of money while the scarcity of well-paying jobs, which become scarcer with layoffs, and the overpayment of many executives highlights how there is a trend of anti-worker phenomena in the workplace (of countries like America, that is).

Worker's unions are a measure to eliminate, thwart, or minimize the degree of predatory norms within a business or industry.  All of the aforementioned types of mistreatment and more can be more easily kept secret when it seems like an individual employee is the only victim, or when they are not open and unified in their resistance to corporate stupidity.  Together, if they all push back or walk away, they can ensure that the business will be unable to remain standing unless it replaces everyone.  If this was to keep happening with each batch or hires, or if there are industry-spanning unions, the company would be forced to amend its ways or die.

There is nothing about a business existing from which it follows that there will or must be evil motives and behaviors from the organization's leaders.  Even on the level of examples from sensory experience, which are absolutely unnecessary to know the logical possibility of such a thing, there are companies and figures that do intentionally avoid exploitation, at least of key kinds.  Every single business that refuses to be a morally neutral or positive workplace, and especially those that can only remain in operation if there is underpayment or other exploitation, cannot deserve to continue unless the problem is rectified.  In those cases where a company refuses, unionization is a spectacular response.

Unions do not have to be tainted with the greed and arrogance they can defend against.  They can provide security for job longevity, working conditions, compensation, and benefits that are truly livable and that actually allow people to flourish.  As a safeguard against active greed, selfishness, and cruelty in a work setting, unions are one of the best options since their workers have the best chance of being recognized and ceded to when the very survival of the business is at stake.  Without unions, plenty of employees laboring for irrational, abusive employers might only have a matter of time before they receive the same injustices as others.