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Here in Sweden we don't really have company/location specific unions, ours are sector based with national reach.
It has always confused me to hear about small unions like this.
That's because other countries are doing it wrong. Small unions will not hold any power, they're completely pointless.
The idea is you get small unions joining. Randomly starting a big one is difficult
This.
For example, it's much easier to get 20 game studios' employees to form individual unions, slowly building up more and more support within their tight-knit communities, than it is to have employees from all 20 game studios simultaneously come together, agree they want to start a union, and draw way more attention and hostility otherwise.
Obviously this isn't a hard and fast rule 100% of the time, but the alternative is just it being too hard to coordinate across every game studio at once.
And of course, later on, they can always just merge together or form partnerships/agreements as needed. It's getting started that's the hard part, and it's even more difficult when you try to start at a massive scale.
Denmark has FH, which stands for "fagbevægelse hovedorganisation", which is essentially a kind of alliance of unions. The only one not part of this alliance is Krifa and their Faglig Hus (Krifa = kristelig fag).
I am shocked that a Christian organisation wouldn't play ball with the others. To be fair when I say "other countries" I'm obviously painting with a very broad brush. I'm sure that there are countries out there with good strong national unions, and I'd be surprised if that's not fairly common here in the Nordics.
We love our folkrörelser here in Sweden, like we even have a tenants union, that each year, among other things, negotiate rent increases with the landlords and their unions. They'll also offer legal counsel and even representation if you're a member, which if you're a tenant in Sweden you fucking should be.
Yeah, that is my feeling as well.
Same in Denmark, but here we also have overenskomster for specific work places, or kinds of work.
For example, I work for Just Eat. This puts me with 3F Transport Group. They have the transportoverenskomst, which is the groundwork for overenskomster of specific types of jobs, like bus driver, truck driver, or in my case, food delivery. So, based on the transportoverenskomst, we have the madudbringningsoverenskomst.