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  1. Re: Trade union fighting for survival on Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    People will not become indifferent to employment, but their negotiation position is much stronger even without the Union.

    You see Union has power, because a) employees need them b) employers can't bypass them.

    If employees don't need union anymore to have leverage over employer, then that also means employees don't need union as much. aka "I will quit and just live on UBI until I find more reasonable employer", If employees don't needs unions as much, unions won't have as much power over them. Also if workers and employers start negotiation directly with UBI as employees leverage (rather than union), then employers don't need to deal with union

    ergo unions are not needed and can be side stepped under UBI, meaning thus they aren't as relevant aka they will lose power. In picture comes the "law" of organizational survival. Any large enough organization and bureaucracies main goal will morph into the organizations own existence and thus it's employment of it's bureaucracy. Thus SAK managerial staff is scared shitless, UBI will be adopted, SAK will lose power and thus will down size and it's higher ups will lose their position of power. ERGO SAK (and their bed fellow party SDP) are vehemently against UBI, simply because it threatens the organizations themselves.