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The burden to track company behaviour shouldn't be on customers. The normal way to counter this is via unions.
by distances 9y ago
The burden to track company behaviour shouldn't be on customers. The normal way to counter this is via unions.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoIt sounds like unions are the new Rust on Hacker News.
- smacktoward 9y agoin both cases, it's unsurprising that when the status quo so obviously sucks as badly as it does that people go looking for alternatives.
- 18pfsmt 9y agoI've got many friends in unions (e.g. pipefitters/welders) and based on the stories they tell me, unions need a 21st century reboot. They need a simple platform to organize/communicate digitally. Do you know of anything that exists like that?
- Apocryphon 9y agoIf only there was an industry that was good at building new communications platforms + revamping 20th century institutions.
- distances 9y agoI feel there's a clear difference how people see unions in the US vs. in Europe. I don't have much insight in to the differences, but it would be nice to hear why that is so. I'm a proponent of strong unions with generally binding collective agreements (= collective agreements defining legally binding minimum terms for the whole industry), but I suppose the model won't work everywhere for one reason or another.