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Perhaps a newly-formed modern day union would strive to improve upon the problems of past unions with the benefit of historical hindsight.
by Apocryphon 3y ago
Perhaps a newly-formed modern day union would strive to improve upon the problems of past unions with the benefit of historical hindsight.
- bluGill 3y agoMaybe, but it is likely that you will not be able to form a new union and instead be forced to join with an existing one. As soon as a big union hears of your efforts they will step in and demand to be the ones to represent you then they only need a couple people to scream we need to join the big union and they can fight your efforts to be independent in court.
- Apocryphon 3y agoIt’s more of the principle of the thing. We work in an industry that aspires to disrupt everything from human relations (social media), to commerce (Amazon, the sharing economy), to biology, nutrition, and the very laws of physics (or at least material science.) Even if a lot of this is just marketing hype, there is still ambition required to come up with such utopian grandiose goals. But whenever the idea of a union is discussed it’s “no, we’ve tried it already, that’s impossible, everyone knows that.” What hypocritical defeatism!
- bluGill 3y agoSome things we disrupt, others we fail, often because the very laws of physics are against it. There are also laws of what makes a union work and they don't point to success. Mind those laws are not as absolute as the laws of physics, but they also place limits on what a union can do, and in turn make me less interested.
- Apocryphon 3y agoThat still doesn’t prevent all sorts of audacious, even foolhardy experiments from being undertaken in this industry. We should seek to dream bigger in every arena, even in the area of labor.