At the present day, we are no longer an agrarian society, nor are we a society that is made up of a massive amount of small self-sufficient independent contractors. For the most part, many people that are part of the working force, are employees to a particular business enterprise, and of which, typically, their voice, independent of a union, though with the exception of those with an exceptional or in-demand skillset, do not usually have much say as to their employment security or their overall working conditions, thereof. In other words, many a person, especially those that are not high wage earners, are subject to what could be best described as the arbitrary will of those that employ them, especially so in those States, which have enacted poorly named legislative acts, such as, the “Right-to-Work.”
The reason that being employed “at-will,” or not having some sort of reasonable job security for those that are classified as an employee, is so undesirable, is the salient fact that those that do not have some sort of security from their employment, thus makes them susceptible to all of the incumbent negatives of not having a consistent income stream, so required, in order to pay all of their ordinary as well as extraordinary bills that come their way. This signifies that a person that cannot be comfortably secure in their economic freedom is, by any reasonable measure of such, not economically free, and therefore not truly free, as a person. After all, those that are dependent upon their subsistence via a particular business enterprise, which does not then give them any or much say in their livelihood are thus in constant danger of their own personal “house of cards” collapsing, to their personal damage.
In this world, the best possible way for those that are employed by others, that they can have some semblance of secured employment, is for that government, of, for, and by the people to actually stand up and to represent those people. The other alternative to a government, that does not care to support or to care for the common people, is for the people, themselves, to join together in unions, so that in concert, they can thus have the power to have a seat at the economic table and thereby receive in return, from their employment, a fair share of the spoils of such, rather than the lion’s share of profits going almost exclusively to upper management, and their investors.
The purpose of good governance, is for that governance to do its fair part on behalf of the people to assist in bringing forth a society that is most beneficial for the whole of the people, rather than favoring some specific subset of such. In absence of direct action by that government, we find, then, that the government has an absolute obligation to still do its good part to see that those that are employees are fairly represented through, for instance, the aegis of unions or its equivalency – for those that have no voice and no economic security are not free, and will never become free, until they have those very things.