Not all workers benefit from labor unions. Labor unions were created to help the workers, but sometimes fail to do so. Without labor unions, America was able to bring the work day down to eight hours, whereas in Europe, unions failed to do this first. This is because unions abruptly begin to enforce policies. if a worker is too poor to only work eight hours a week, he must find some other work. The concept is the same with wages. If unions suddenly say that employers must now pay employees at least ten dollars above minimum wage, the employer may not be making enough money to have any employees. Since the boss must now pay more money to his employees than he is making, the boss will go out of business and the employees will no longer have any wages whatsoever.