Why Labor Rights don't matter, until the moment they do. Why labor unions matter.

As a professional employee (an engineer and later a project manager with a PMP credential) from the time I graduated from college, I never gave a second thought to the possibility of being in a labor union. It just has not been an option at all the places I have worked. Where I now work, project managers do not have personnel supervisory authority. They manage projects in which their co-workers report to their own functional supervisors. This has been typical of my career in project management at other companies as well.

Now, after three years in my present job, I suddenly am a member .........

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