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> Combat racial discrimination Interestingly, it has been shown that more diverse groups of employees are less likely to organize and form unions or demand col
by core-questions 6y ago
> Combat racial discrimination
Interestingly, it has been shown that more diverse groups of employees are less likely to organize and form unions or demand collective bargaining.
- toss1 6y agoInteresting, got any citations handy?
- core-questions 6y agoYes. On the more academic front: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0019793915602253 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0019793915602253 On a more anecdotal front, Whole Foods is aware of this at the corporate level and so is (apparently) deliberately pushing for a more diverse employee base not to actually improve race relations, but to prevent unionization. https://observer.com/2020/04/amazon-whole-foods-anti-union-technology-heat-map/ https://observer.com/2020/04/amazon-whole-foods-anti-union-t...
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- Nasrudith 6y agoI wonder how much of the phenomenon is historically based on past actions of unions. Regardless of class there is no intrinsic virtue to station and the incumbents would be incentivized in the short term to keep newcomers out to inflate their guild's value. Doing so without a legal monopoly however sows the seeds of their downfall as they lose the critical mass of labor needed and going with the cheaper newcomers becomes not only viable but preferrable. Long term said maltreated former newcomers would be left with negative experiences towards unions and likely think of them negatively. That scenario has echoes in the past well before industrial organized labor and guilds into outright caste dynamics - although those may occur from lack of an educational infrastructure leaving occupation essentially heritable and it being codified.