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Good for them. As for the tech workers, they need something like a guild with membership fees and staff lawyers that would sue the state for allowing binding ar
by vjktyu 7y ago
Good for them. As for the tech workers, they need something like a guild with membership fees and staff lawyers that would sue the state for allowing binding arbitration and non compete agreements (i.e. do what California did).
- utopian3 7y agoSue the state for allowing it? Honest question— Is that a legal argument? If laws don’t exist, how can you sue the state for not enacting them if it doesn’t violate a constitutional right...
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- vjktyu 7y agoThat's why we need lawyers on a payroll that would figure out all the details.
- reaperducer 7y agothey need something like a guild with membership fees and staff lawyers that would sue the state for allowing binding arbitration and non compete agreements Serious question: How is this kind of a guild different from a union in your view?
- jedimastert 7y agoApparently guilds are for independent contractors and unions are for employees. A developer guild would be for freelance devs and the like
- reaperducer 7y agoAh. Thanks for the clarification. All I could piece together in my mind were the medieval guilds of Belgium. But I guess this isn't that far removed.
- Retric 7y agoScreen actors guild is the most famous current example. While less well known they have made a significant difference in actor safety.
- cafard 7y agoThe Newspaper Guild (TNG, now part of the Communications Workers of America) represents a lot of journalists. But indeed most of us have heard the names of far more members of SAG-AFTRA than of TNG.
- pjc50 7y agoProfessional organisations are middle class, while unions are working class. (Per downthread, the dividing line is really "if your organisation comes into conflict with the state, does the fight happen in a courtroom or on the street?")
- ianleeclark 7y ago> Professional organisations are middle class, while unions are working class. I see a lot of hemming and hawing about "the middle class," but I don't think it has any real meaning. What defines the middle class and how is the working class excluded from it? Are you using "the middle class," as a substitute for a professional/managerial class?
- vjktyu 7y agoAfaik, a union can tell you what you can and cannot do, while I only want a team of well funded lawyers to change some laws. And the u word attracts unnecessary attention. Let's call it a club, actually.
- krtong 7y agobut Just remember, the bargaining power of any union is a non compete agreement. Corporations are unions for the modern day mercantile class.