Disintermediate the Unions

You’d have to think that unions are due for disintermediation along with the rest of the service industries.

All that the workers in a sector really need is a special purpose free app on their phones that allows them to communicate with each other via all the usual social media channels (one to one, one to many, broadcast, etc).

In addition the app could have a ‘GetUp’ style petition and donation system for specific collective bargaining activities.

My guess is that this style of ‘union’ would get 100% adoption because of the lack of recurring fees and, more importantly, the lack of union officials and their entitled and/or corrupt ways.

As Mike says ‘who wants to pay for hookers and long lunches?’ You could add to that list, who is interested in paying for student politicians to get career jobs in the union movement ahead of their shift to the labour party, absent any real life experience?

You wouldn’t even call the new app a union. For each sector you could come with a sexy name like GetUp and leave the description of the virtual association to others to imagine.

It would be bloody hard for the anti-union types to target a virtual union which wasn’t even a union. Imagine the politician attempting to write laws against virtual aggregation or virtual collective bargaining.