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Originally Posted by peter12
The increasing gap in incomes is probably due to government support of certain industries than the actual free market.
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Very fair point.
But the government supports those industries/corporations because those industries/corporations have hugely funded lobbying groups that affect politicians, thereby giving them that favorable government support.
Unions are the workers' response to those lobbying groups. I can't speak much to the Canadian side of this, but in the US this is a huge problem, and definitely right now is a time when unions need to be strengthened and formed, not broken down and defeated. When there are people working 40-50 hours a week at miserable jobs but still need to depend on public assistance to feed their families thanks to the wonderful corporate giants such as Walmart, unionization is about the only hope these people have to someday get an actual living wage out of the multi-billion dollar company they're slaving for.