I'll recount a short twitter conversation I had with some engineers who wanted to be in a collective, I suggested them all being equal partners, and was promptl

I'll recount a short twitter conversation I had with some engineers who wanted to be in a collective, I suggested them all being equal partners, and was promptly blocked... > My company laid off 17 engineers including me when we tried to unionize. Now I’m having a hard time finding a job. Any leads for junior-to-mid software developers in the DC area or remote, send em my way. And please share. #LanetixUnion #jobsearch - Sara J. Martinez ‏ > Software developers are generally well treated and compensated. What drove you to attempt unionizing? - Me. > There should be interviews with Lanetix engineers coming out soon which will go in depth. For a quick overview, here is what we wrote to management: - Björn Westergard ‏ > If you're a collective of software engineers worth bargaining with, you should all form your own consultancy firm, and forget about that "client". This might be your best, realistic solution. Thank me when you're making 2x, in nicer conditions and fewer hours... - Me > This “solution” doesn’t scale due to the competitive race to the bottom dynamics of capitalism. Unions demonstrably do work at scale. Everyone is “worth bargaining with” for those who don’t to serve mammon alone. - Björn Westergard ‏ > You have limited options as I see it, and you probably need to ask yourselves what's more important, getting back to work (but apparently not at Lanetix), or grinding an ideological axe? If you're so egalitarian, make everyone an equal partner, and start looking for clients. - Me (https://twitter.com/aaronchall/status/970717102465323008 https://twitter.com/aaronchall/status/970717102465323008) Björn promptly blocked me at that point. > "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" In this case, his non-existent union salary, I suppose...