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Unions and shareholders

What prevents unions (or other groups of employees) from pooling resources in order to buy enough stock to make board members vote to increase wages and other labor requests?
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>What prevents unions (or other groups of employees) from pooling resources in order to buy enough stock to make board members vote to increase wages and other labor requests?

You woukd need to own a lot of of the voting shares which could involve needing to purchase a huge proportion of the company.

If you're unionising for better pay you probably don't have those kinds of resources.