Mapbox Workers Union
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Mapbox Workers Union
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Re: Mapbox Workers Union
#2Sponsored by the Google Maps team.
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#3Hmmm, no comment from Mapbox management on the company "blog" just yet:
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#4These workers have just obtained regulatory privilege that shields them from competition from other people who may want to apply for their positions, while allowing them to exploit MapBox's investors by suppressing their contracting rights in deciding who to hire.
Of course, ideological hocus pocus is needed to obfuscate the exploitive nature of regulation-entrenched unions, so you get statements like this:
>>Our operations are informed by an intersectional perspective on power and privilege.
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#5These workers have just obtained regulatory privilege that shields them from competition from other people who may want to apply for their positions, while allowing them to exploit MapBox's investors by suppressing their contracting rights in deciding who to hire. Of course, ideological hocus pocus is needed to obfuscate the exploitive nature of regulation-entrenched unions, so you get statements like this: >>Our ope…
One side is already collectively bargaining, seems fucked to have a monopoly on that.
Especially when VCs publish books bragging about violating labor laws and colluding.
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#6These workers have just obtained regulatory privilege that shields them from competition from other people who may want to apply for their positions, while allowing them to exploit MapBox's investors by suppressing their contracting rights in deciding who to hire. Of course, ideological hocus pocus is needed to obfuscate the exploitive nature of regulation-entrenched unions, so you get statements like this: >>Our ope…
It’s also a private company, they are literally investors in it, with the least liquidity and information. Are you anti stock option / RSU or something?
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#7These workers have just obtained regulatory privilege that shields them from competition from other people who may want to apply for their positions, while allowing them to exploit MapBox's investors by suppressing their contracting rights in deciding who to hire. Of course, ideological hocus pocus is needed to obfuscate the exploitive nature of regulation-entrenched unions, so you get statements like this: >>Our ope…
One side is already collectively bargaining, seems fucked to have a monopoly on that. Especially when VCs publish books bragging about violating labor laws and colluding.
What collusion are you referring to? There was one case I am familiar with, from several years back, where tech giants had a gentlemen's agreement to not cold call each other's employee AT work to recruit them. It seems to be an outlier, and pretty mild as far as collusion goes. Competition amongst tech employers for workers is actually very intense, which produced the arms race in tech talent and corresponding salary growth over the last decade.
Anyway, my issue is not the collusion, it's the regulatory restrictions, that violate the right of the employer to freely contract. That's coercive.
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#8These workers have just obtained regulatory privilege that shields them from competition from other people who may want to apply for their positions, while allowing them to exploit MapBox's investors by suppressing their contracting rights in deciding who to hire. Of course, ideological hocus pocus is needed to obfuscate the exploitive nature of regulation-entrenched unions, so you get statements like this: >>Our ope…
It’s also a private company, they are literally investors in it, with the least liquidity and information. Are you anti stock option / RSU or something?
I don't follow your point. Could you elaborate?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
One side is already collectively bargaining, seems fucked to have a monopoly on that. Especially when VCs publish books bragging about violating labor laws and colluding.
What collusion are you referring to? There was one case I am familiar with, from several years back, where tech giants had a gentlemen's agreement to not cold call each other's employee AT work to recruit them. It seems to be an outlier, and pretty mild as far as collusion goes. Competition amongst tech employers for workers is actually very intense, which produced the arms race in tech talent and corresponding salar…
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
One side is already collectively bargaining, seems fucked to have a monopoly on that. Especially when VCs publish books bragging about violating labor laws and colluding.
What collusion are you referring to? There was one case I am familiar with, from several years back, where tech giants had a gentlemen's agreement to not cold call each other's employee AT work to recruit them. It seems to be an outlier, and pretty mild as far as collusion goes. Competition amongst tech employers for workers is actually very intense, which produced the arms race in tech talent and corresponding salar…
wtf, you can't be that stupid.
They were and are fixing salaries. They were explicitly turning away people in addition to failing to go after people they should have.
Executive salaries are going up, particularly in exits, IC salaries aren't.
It wasn't and isn't the outlier, it is openly talked about.
Corporations have no natural rights, those are for individuals.