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thats american democracy. the rest of the western world is far less dystopian
Eh not really. For most people in Europe this post is true as well.
Nonsense.
Ukraine, Romania, and Poland have good workers rights?
Not sure about the rest, but Romania does. Communism fucked us up in many ways, but a positive legacy is how enshrined unions are in law.
Companies can get legislated to oblivion if it turns out they tried to suppress a union. We have "codul muncii" (the labour code EDIT: Found a decent English translation if anyone's interested) which is a surprisingly readable government legal document that goes through exactly what rights you have and what obligations the company has towards you, as well as what legal incantations you need to do in which situations.
We have problems that spring up when both the workers and the company don't know how this works. Workers being taken advantage of, unaware how much power they have, and companies not realising it only takes one person to report them before very bad things start happening to them.
We also have 18 days national holiday, minimum 21 days PTO per year (2 weeks of this per year must be consecutive and the company gets punished if it isn't). Maternity leave is 126 days at 85% of your income (42 of it mandatory). These rules are fairly middle of the pack in Europe, nothing exceptional except the huge number of national holidays.
Poland has pretty great laws if you have a contract. There is also a business2business relationship which a lot of people go for, where you aren't as protected but get to keep more money out of it.