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The overwhelming majority do and for those that don't, there are legal means for reporting them for fine or imprisonment. A union cannot achieve anything in that regard that the individual employees cannot do on their own.
As for the second part, where did you ever get that stupid idea? Of course the employees are not equal to their employers. The employer, and I'm speaking specifically of small business owners who start companies from scratch, have all the risk in ensuring that the business is successful, they have put in their time, money and effort to something that, for the majority of small businesses, fail in the first year. To have that be successful, to be able to employ other people, to produce things that are valuable to the public, they certainly deserve a bigger portion of the reward based on the bigger portion of the risk they took.
What is beyond ridiculous is that you believe otherwise.
Most "small" businesses don't even have unionization because there aren't enough employees.
I don't know what you are talking about with the lawyer. Who pays for a lawyer for you if you are wrongfully terminated, and you don't make much money to begin with so what you have, you have to save to survive on and can't afford to pay a lawyer yourself. Don't even say that lawyers will take it pro bono, they usually only will do that if there is going to be a big payday for them.
Also, it's your word against their's a lot of times, and THEY are not always telling the truth either.