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Two thoughts as I wake up to this: 1) "Arranged as a members-only union, the new organization won’t seek collective bargaining rights to negotiate a new contra
by mancerayder 6y ago
Two thoughts as I wake up to this:
1) "Arranged as a members-only union, the new organization won’t seek collective bargaining rights to negotiate a new contract with the company"
What use will that be, if they don't collectively bargain, as a, em, collective of employees? The next step would be to pressure everyone to join, or the whole thing won't be very effective.
2) If the thing were to work, then I'd expect the very next HN article to read:
Alphabet Company Announces Move to __, TX.
- capableweb 6y agoContract bargaining for the members is not the only thing a union usually does. There are loads more to it, great starting point to learn more about unions would be to read through the Wikipedia page before dismissing the idea, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union If it wasn't clear to people working at Google before, if the company moves somewhere in order to lessen the power of their employees, I sure hope the employees start waking up to how their company treats them. My guess is that Google doesn't want to actually show that face though, so unlikely to happen.
- mancerayder 6y ago> There are loads more to it, great starting point to learn more about unions A great starting point to sound condescending, as well.
- capableweb 6y agoSorry, that was not my intention. My intention was to guide you to read more about the subject you're currently discussing, as your points make it pretty clear that the idea of what a union is, is much wider than what you think.