In a perfect world, employers, workers, and consumers would be totally satisfied and have all their needs and wants met across all industries. Unfortunately, the world is not perfect, and most members of the aforementioned groups are unsatisfied with the way things are in any given industry. Workers in particular seem to have had and still have issues with their wages, safety, and other conditions at work. Rather than sit back and let these issues persist, the workers, aided by separate organizations, attempted to create a solution for themselves. Some controversy lies in whether the solution they came up with has successfully changed their quality of work for the better, or has done more harm than good. Based on economic concepts, it seems more likely that the latter is true and workers may be participating in self-destructive behaviors instead of …show more content…
A single worker quitting because of unfair conditions will have little effect on the future actions of the employers, but many workers retaliating can shift the employer’s attitude. To combat their mistreatment, workers united together to form labor unions, which are organizations that negotiate with the worker’s employers on their behalf. Unions function by collecting money from their members and using that money to assist the workers in persuading their employers to give them better wages, job security, and more. Most of the earliest unions were formed in resource companies such as coal mining, in which workers endured dangerous circumstances in their daily work. At this time, the unions provided necessary protection to these workers in their high-risk-of-injury jobs. But since their beginnings, unions have spread across multiple industries, some with workers in drastically less dire conditions than those of coal