A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't
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A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't
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Re: A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't
#2that industry: capitalism
Re: A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't
#368% of Americans supposedly support unions: https://news.gallup.com/poll/694472/labor-union-approval-rel...
Yet, ~50% of Americans voted for the party that is diametrically opposed to them; a paradox.
That said, with only about ~10% of Americans being employed in a union role, it's more like the grass is greener on the other side than an actual understanding of the pros and cons of union membership.
Re: A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't
#4Personally, after working for multiple blue collar unions (commercial roofing, machinist) I don't. But I won't oppose anyone that does.
The problem is that the people that DO want them, want to force it on those that don't, usually by labor law.
Re: A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't
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Re: A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't
#668% of Americans supposedly support unions: https://news.gallup.com/poll/694472/labor-union-approval-rel... Yet, ~50% of Americans voted for the party that is diametrically opposed to them; a paradox. That said, with only about ~10% of Americans being employed in a union role, it's more like the grass is greener on the other side than an actual understanding of the pros and cons of union membership.
> ~50% of Americans voted for the party that is diametrically opposed to them
Less than half of the US population voted in the last election. ~50% of Americans _who voted_ voted for the party that is diametrically opposed to unions, but that group is only ~23% of _Americans_.
Re: A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't
#7The problem with union is that it also centralizes the power to the top which also then attracts sociopaths and/or psychopaths who are better are playing the political game.
Re: A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't
#8How do unions work? Can a place just not hire union workers and it takes a whole profession to unionize to make them effective?
Re: A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't
#968% of Americans supposedly support unions: https://news.gallup.com/poll/694472/labor-union-approval-rel... Yet, ~50% of Americans voted for the party that is diametrically opposed to them; a paradox. That said, with only about ~10% of Americans being employed in a union role, it's more like the grass is greener on the other side than an actual understanding of the pros and cons of union membership.
This is why one issue wedge voting works. You may vote against something you want to vote for something you want more.
Re: A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't
#1068% of Americans supposedly support unions: https://news.gallup.com/poll/694472/labor-union-approval-rel... Yet, ~50% of Americans voted for the party that is diametrically opposed to them; a paradox. That said, with only about ~10% of Americans being employed in a union role, it's more like the grass is greener on the other side than an actual understanding of the pros and cons of union membership.
> actual understanding of the pros and cons of union membership
Many of us have worked in $MEGACORPS with substantial union representation among the employees, have seen what it does and how it works in practice, and as a result want nothing to do with it. I wasn't represented due to my job classification, but now due to my firsthand exposure to unions I absolutely never will be by choice.
No way, no how, not ever.