• Kajo [he/him] 🌈@beehaw.org
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      Unions don't work the same way in all european countries.

      In France, the union I belong to is organized by local company and public service, with a spawling system of dual cascading federations by geographic sector and economic sector.

      And there are several competing national union organizations which overlap. I don't know exactly how the other ones are organized

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        Austria has basically one big union (ÖGB), in which there are specific unions for different industries.

        So, yeah. Every country has their own history and different approaches to unionization.

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      This is the difference between a trade union and an industrial union. You can join an industrial union elsewhere in Europe or even in the US, such as the IWW.