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To address the ongoing affordability crisis, Parliamentarians should support Bill C-56 and back unions to counterbalance corporate power | Canadian Labour Congress (canadianlabour.ca)

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[–] avidamoeba 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Never thought of consolidation as increasing market power to set wages against labor but once you put it this way, the conclusion is quite obvious.

E: That said, consolidation in the presence of unions should increase the power of said unions because few or even a single union could bring down a whole business sector. E.g. if ROBeLUS was a single unionized company, its union could halt telecommunications via strike action. There would be no other potentially ununionized company to "step in" and fill the gap.