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I don’t think so. All that is needed is a different way to organize. Unions need online social networks for workers to meet and communicate. That would make it

I don’t think so. All that is needed is a different way to organize. Unions need online social networks for workers to meet and communicate. That would make it impossible for companies to stop unionization.

Mountain_Skies 4y ago
IIRC, Ralph Nader once proposed a .union TLD that would mirror each employer's .com domain. If you worked for Amazon, you'd know to go to amazon.union to find out about the company union, or if it didn't exist, about unionizing activities. I'm sure there would be many implementation details that would need to be worked out, but it seemed like a pretty good way to empower labor at each company.
- koheripbal 4y ago
  That would give monopoly power to one union. Monopolies always abuse their power.
  - oplaadpunt 4y ago
    I think that would fall under the implementations details for me. It'd be a nice idea to show a listing of all registered unions when going to the amazon.union domain, with further subdomains for specific unions. (xxx.amazon.union, yyy.amazon.union, etc). I don't think this would lead to any monopolization of power.
  - Mountain_Skies 4y ago
    The site could contain links to all unions that represent employees in that company. Not sure I've ever heard of any individual employee being represented by multiple unions, even if there are multiple unions covering different groups within a company, but I guess it's possible.
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