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Explain, in your opinion, why workers joined unions.

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Workers join unions for protection, livable wages, health benefits and strength. With the majority of the United States being at-will states, meaning a worker can be terminated for cause or no cause at all, workers need protection from losing their jobs. When an individual joins a union, he or she cannot be terminated without cause; and ...

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