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Millions of people across the U.S. benefit from collective bargaining, such as increased wages, health benefits and retirement security, yet one anecdotal off-
by jdkee 7y ago
Millions of people across the U.S. benefit from collective bargaining, such as increased wages, health benefits and retirement security, yet one anecdotal off-topic post gets upvoted.
- azinman2 7y agoProbably because it resonates as a real problem despite the upsides.
- dd36 7y agoAn easily solved problem.
- rukittenme 7y agoPlease solve it then. Start with AT&T's union. I await your results.
- dd36 7y agoThe employees can request it be fixed in the next contract. Of all things though, I'm not sure that it's worth the effort relative to other things.
- rukittenme 7y ago> Of all things though, I'm not sure that it's worth the effort relative to other things. So its not easily solved...
- Apocryphon 7y agoOr perhaps it reinforces preconceived notions?
- azinman2 7y agoIt matches my own experience and anecdotes that others have told me from their experiences. I don’t think it’ll be hard to find similar stories out there...
- Apocryphon 7y agoIt's good to have those stories, because then it will provide case studies for future unions to learn from and to avoid.
- WilliamEdward 7y agoIs there any wonder why this is the case on a site where business owners and wannabe business owners congregate? They don't benefit from unions after all, some even hate them.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoThat’s not the correct comparison. Unions are a hedge against abusive employers when employees lack other options. They are a blunt instrument with many downsides. They make sense when the downsides are not worse than the abusive employer. This does not describe the situation with kickstarter employees, and any real union job would find this entitlement laughable.
- notyourday 7y agoTech industry is full of entitled prima donnas living in an alternative reality valid only in their heads. US median wage according to data for 2016 was about $32k [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...]. According to Payscale Kickstarter pays its employees an average of $96,897 a year. Salaries at Kickstarter range from an average of $62,662 to $142,634 a year. Deciding to treat tech management in an adversarial fashion or being more woke than the management while making 3x is going towards the mean, not away from it.
- Apocryphon 7y ago"Software engineers aren't a privileged set. They're just less fucked than the rest of the U.S. Former Middle Class." https://www.quora.com/Why-do-software-engineers-make-so-much-With-so-many-students-pursuing-careers-in-software-engineering-today-do-you-see-salaries-going-down-significantly-in-the-future-If-so-by-how-much/answer/Michael-O-Church https://www.quora.com/Why-do-software-engineers-make-so-much...
- notyourday 7y agoNot recognizing that making over 100k/year sitting in $800 chairs, eating company provided organic snacks, having subsidized meals ( or fully free ) in lovely offices and complaining that the management is not woke enough that it dared to pull the "It is always a good time to punch a nazi" project before reinstating it not to offend the woke employees is the definition of privileged set.