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Yeah. That's the whole list... Want to compile the 1000 page document that would be all the places who haven't unionized?
by anm89 6y ago
Yeah. That's the whole list...
Want to compile the 1000 page document that would be all the places who haven't unionized?
- toomuchtodo 6y agoThat's unnecessary. I'm simply demonstrating that unionization has occurred in businesses far larger and with arguably more difficult organizing environments than Basecamp (with a total of ~60 employees). 800 Google workers thought it important enough to join their union.
- sokoloff 6y ago800 out of 135000 is 6 tenths of 1%. A Basecamp union organizer who was the only one to decide to join their own creation of a Basecamp Workers Union would already be 3 times as successful as the Google union on a per-capita basis.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoI can only chuckle at the raw math, as if that’s the valuable datapoint. It seems impossible until it’s done. It took decades for America to ruin the idea of unions, they’re not coming back overnight.
- sokoloff 6y agoA union derives its bargaining power from the amount of monopoly it has on the labor supply. (I don't say that as a bad thing; I mean it just as a factual thing.) Tech industry turnover is around 13% per year, or 0.25% per week. The Google union could all quit at once and it would be like that week's turnover number was slightly higher than normal. Google has more employees out sick on any given day than they have union members.
- anm89 6y agoImagine making this ridiculous argument for anything else. Yeah, maybe only .005% of Americans are flat earthers but I chuckle at the math! You just havent given it enough time for us to be proven right!
- anm89 6y agoI'll stick to calling 1000s to 3 "nearly unanimous"