Unions in your Countries

[Saurisisia]

Very rare nowadays as labor unions are seen with great suspicion by Saurisians both due to the role many unions played in the Second Civil War (where they were among the various left-wing organizations who fought the government and an assortment of right-wing groups) and due to the overly-harsh methods a lot of them used to combat worker abuse back in the late 19th century.

[Urmanian]

Workers' Councils and Trade Unions and other labor organizations have the freedom to form and organize as they wish. However they don't get any privileges from the state. Employers may also indiscriminately fire unionized workers and generally folks are distrustful of unions. So they have little power here and 'red' independent unions are pretty weak, though 'yellow' company unions ran by private enterprises to provide more enticing working environments and conditions to their employees are more widespread and respected.

They're armed, though. With tanks and guns and modern fighter aircraft and sea-going warships. Though so are private companies and PMCs and anti-socialist militias. So labor conflicts tend to get rather bloody, as general strikes turn into cruise missile strikes.

[Hobbiest Republic]

Depending on your local area Unions may be popular. Although, given their tendency to strong arm workers into a collective, they are very unpopular in the more Capitalist sections of the Republic, sometimes they are broken up by force when attempting to monopolize and prevent free-labour from working. As such while the state has been known to intercede on the side of the so-called 'scabs', said free-labourers have been known to forcibly break union blockades with extreme force(Tactical Nuclear Intervention). As such unions have hard times forming without the express consent of the community, but upon the oppression of the minority are often labelled as 'heretical entities' which are open to censure and condemnation from the greater community and church.

Often Unions are associated in the Hobbiest Republic with Communist movements which have frequently and recklessly assailing the free people of the Republic. As a result there is a general hostility towards outspoken and active communist cells which could metastasize into rebellion, after all, people who affiliate with Communists are usually with the forces of chaos and destabilization.

[Lalaki]

Worker's rights are taken very strongly in Lalaki. Many businesses are employee-owned with worker councils, with unions have a strong influence on policy. However, we do not harshly regulate our businesses on other matters. This creates a balance between socialism and capitalism, that serves are nation well.

[United States of The One Percent]

Labor unions are legal in US-TOP; however, through a combination of anti-union legislation, anti-union court decisions, deliberate obstruction and paralysis of executive branch departments and agencies seen as pro-union, anti-union propaganda, threats against union organizers, threats to close and move plants that vote to unionize, and other more or less underhanded means, We have managed to reduce union membership to under 12 percent of workers, mostly in the public sector (which We are working on at present). Only seven percent of Our private sector peons employees are unionized.

When US-TOP had strong unions, roughly from the end of our Second World War to the beginning of the Ronald McDonald Administration, the economic benefits of increased worker productivity went to the workers themselves in the form of higher wages and benefits. This situation, obviously unsustainable if We were to continue to build up Our influence to the point of controlling every important aspect of your lives, was then reversed. Now, while worker productivity continues to increase, most of its benefits flow to Us in the form of higher bonuses, stock options, tax breaks, etc., etc.

I dreamed I saw Joe HIll last night, as dead as dead could be...

[United States of The One Percent]

Depending on your local area Unions may be popular. Although, given their tendency to strong arm workers into a collective, they are very unpopular in the more Capitalist sections of the Republic, sometimes they are broken up by force when attempting to monopolize and prevent free-labour from working. As such while the state has been known to intercede on the side of the so-called 'scabs', said free-labourers have been known to forcibly break union blockades with extreme force(Tactical Nuclear Intervention). As such unions have hard times forming without the express consent of the community, but upon the oppression of the minority are often labelled as 'heretical entities' which are open to censure and condemnation from the greater community and church.

Often Unions are associated in the Hobbiest Republic with Communist movements which have frequently and recklessly assailing the free people of the Republic. As a result there is a general hostility towards outspoken and active communist cells which could metastasize into rebellion, after all, people who affiliate with Communists are usually with the forces of chaos and destabilization.

We salute the Hobbiest Republic and its corporations' Constitutional right to break unions based on their owners' strongly held religious beliefs. So far We have only succeeded in leveraging this newly-uncovered right to allow them to refuse to cover contraception for their peons employees. But We're working on it.

[The Pan-Sino Union]

They are all Legal.

[Lalaki]

Trade unions are very prevalent in the Community of Lalaki. The nation has a strong tradition of protecting the rights of the worker.

Worker councils are not as common, but they do exist in some places and seem to be popular to members.

[Gorgashia]

Ah, yes, Unions. Bit of a hot topic around here, actually.

See, in a Gorgashian cooperative, Unions kind of serve the roles political parties hold in representative democracies. Sort of. As some Unions can stretch over several cooperatives.

In cooperatives that don't have a dominant Union, they allow workers that have collective interests, but not the exact same interests as all of the workers, to organize and voice their opinions in cooperative meetings. However, Union debates have been known to harm productivity and many argue they hamper worker unity compared to cooperatives that don't have unions, though others argue they make debates more efficient as they lower the amount of debaters while still representing all of the workers in a cooperative.

Then there's the cooperative's where a single Union is dominant. While they tend to be highly organized and productive, Danny 'Gettin-The-Shaft' Johnson is going to be getting the shaft with little consequence. Again, some folks argue the productivity created by the organization is great, but others argue that the lack of contrary views make the cooperative ill prepared when a business venture goes to shit and the single-Union cooperative can't find a new solution.

So, yeah, they exist and Gorgashians are mixed on them overall.

[Republic of Minerva]

Unions are very strong in Minerva, mostly due to the lack of minimum wage laws. Unlike most other modern capitalist countries, they are not shrinking in size but getting bigger. Joining a union is not a protected activity, however.

[Luziyca]

Nonexistent: only about 0.5% of working people are members of a union, since bosses can fire union members at will (you can be fired for no reason and nobody will complain).

[The Iberian Peoples]

In Iberia, all political power resides in the Soviets: Workers' councils form the backbone of the country.

Labor Unions are rare to non-existent in cooperatives because they're democratically worker-managed to begin with, but basically universal throughout State enterprises: Payment of union dues is mandatory and unions have a very important presence every public workplace's Executive Committee.

[Wraland]

The state takes care. No need for capitalist ''unions''.

[Russian Socialist Soviet States]

All unions here are affiliated with the Communist Party.

[Hyfling]

Unions barely even exist anymore, at one time they were quite powerful. Following series of high very profile corruption charges which turned out to be true, faith in unions was all but destroyed. Workers now rely on the government to ensure their safety at the workplace.