Former Zoox employees sue, alleging rival offer was better than Amazon's

Post by PierceJoy » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 11:40 PM UTC

School-Cotton wrote: post #111

PierceJoy wrote: post #93

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The unions you are referring to are almost universally for blue collar workers. Most professional athletes are members of unions. Most highly paid actors are members of a union. Neither of those groups have decreased individual leverage. It's unlikely that a union for highly paid white collar workers would closely resemble a union for blue collar workers.

> Neither of those groups have decreased individual leverage. Huh? Sure they do. The MLB negotiated agreement is terrible for top performers, who are paid close to the league minimum salary for the first three years of their career, and an arbitration-determined salary for the next two. As soon as the union-negotiated common salary time runs out, top players’ pay jumps several times .

Post by manigandham » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 2:04 AM UTC

ideals wrote: post #147

chrisseaton wrote: post #134

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> instrumental in ensuring that disabled employees have access to tools they need to do their job and the support they need Accommodating disabled employees is a majority view. The majority of people agree with it. As we said, unions are democratic so how did this action get implemented if it wasn’t a majority view? The problem is when you’re in a minority view. > Your employer does not see you as significantly diffe…

Do you feel you are a top earner in your field? If not, do you think you will become a top earner in your field? Do you know if you earn more than your colleagues?

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 7:27 AM UTC

luckylion wrote: post #87

khazhoux wrote: post #79

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Employee equity is so tiny, only a handful of companies have been able to retire rank-and-file employees, even after big exits. Founders, on the other hand, do quite well in exits usually.

On the big exits, the early employees are often doing very well, but obviously not those that were employee 1000 or joined a week before the announcement. Founders do better, but that's expected, they also carry much higher risk. And really, playing the lottery to win a million is still playing the lottery, even if others who spend even more on the lottery are trying to win a billion. Don't want to lose money on the…

Post by MiroF » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 4:42 PM UTC

solidasparagus wrote: post #145

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Really? The majority of Americans are pro-union and a solid majority sees their decline as a bad thing.

Huh, you're right about the popularity when asked in the abstract. It isn't at the old level of popularity, but support has risen quite a bit in the last few years and is back to a majority. That being said, popularity of a topic is often higher when you talk in the abstract - only 30% of people have 'quite a lot' or a 'great deal' of confidence in unions as an institution which is what I was remembering[1]. Also in…

Post by zaarn » Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 4:16 AM UTC

adriancr wrote: post #166

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Then your union is bad and you should work to improve it. No wonder if US unions always end up so bad if apparently nobody is willing to fix things and let pancilpushers do it.

I'm in europe, unions are mandatory everywhere, some are good, some are not, average just do what the company wants them to, usually the 2-3% raise every year. Unions don't really work for software, high demand, low supply of people, here you can negotiate better then without one, and if you are not happy, next job.