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When corporate workers strike, they don’t disrupt the board members and major shareholders that set their pay, they disrupt the everyday customer who might have
by mikeash 8y ago
When corporate workers strike, they don’t disrupt the board members and major shareholders that set their pay, they disrupt the everyday customer who might have even been sympathetic to their cause.
- Zach_the_Lizard 8y agoThey do tend to disrupt profits, which in turn does disrupt the board. Since board members tend to be large shareholders or representatives of large shareholders, they would personally feel the effects of their net worth decreasing.
- mikeash 8y agoStrikes by government workers disrupt taxes and affect elections. What’s the difference, really?
- pnw_hazor 8y agoPrivate unions are fine. Government unions are problematic because the interests of taxpayers and the government officials that negotiate with the unions are not in alignment. Government office holders benefit greatly if they take care of the government unions in terms of campaign donations, endorsements, rallies, and so on. Taxpayers not so much. Why else do government union employees get outsized retirement benefits that have caused disabling debts to local governments? That is what happens when the taxpayers' negotiator personally benefits from keeping the government unions happy happy.
- mikeash 8y agoI don’t see that the union is a particularly important part of what you describe. The same things could happen without a union. The misaligned incentives are the same either way.