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Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick would be proud. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike The who
by vgeek 5y ago
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick would be proud.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
The whole "we're highly paid, ruggedly individualistic engineer" schtick buys into what the companies want. Sure, you may make 400k total comp as a SWE, but what if it were 500k had your employer was not been actively plotting ways to distort the labor market through collusion with competing companies. If activist shareholders understand that they need large blocks of shares to drive change, why wouldn't workers organize into blocks to drive change in their own favor?
https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-others-settle-anti-poaching-lawsuit-for-415-million/ https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-others-settle-anti-po...
- gremlinsinc 5y agoMost of these corps have cafe's, and people commute, and if everybody in SWE field is making $500k and housing/rent shows it... the union should also then fight for people at restaurants, etc to get compensated by the same companies that employ them, because it's gonna be kinda shitty living in a big city where basically the only rec activities are work and going home because service industry is a ghost town. I agree it can make life better for people in the co, just saying unions need to join forces and create syndicates of unions and really bring teeth against the powers of big companies.