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>>engineers can "collectively bargain" with Google by simply leaving and working somewhere "better". This "if you don't like it here, go work somewhere else" k
by Moosdijk 6y ago
>>engineers can "collectively bargain" with Google by simply leaving and working somewhere "better".
This "if you don't like it here, go work somewhere else" kind of reasoning disproportionately balances the power towards the employer. Instead of fixing problems, it leads to removing those that are affected. This is exactly what unions are for.
- huffmsa 6y agoThe traitorous eight leaving Shockley because they didn't like their boss is foundational to the valley.
- consp 6y agoAt that, what is basically a startup, level it is possible but for a company the size of Google it would not put a dent into the system. Totally different power dynamics.
- dls2016 6y agoI like that everyone sort of forgets about the time the big tech firms were caught in a wage-fixing cabal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...