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Thank you for the response. There is lots of interesting info here that the announcement doesn't even hint at. I'll also note that I had no idea when I wrote t

Thank you for the response. There is lots of interesting info here that the announcement doesn't even hint at. I'll also note that I had no idea when I wrote this (as most probably do not) that Fastmail is apparently an employee-owned company, which changes the color of this dramatically. I'm still not totally sure I see the point of the union in this case, but it means that some of my questions are essentially not applicable here.

bwestergard 3y ago
Yeah, that's an interesting detail. "Employee ownership" is not really a legal term, or rather, is applied to a wide variety of legal arrangements. Most of these do not actually give employees the powers the term suggests to many: to nominate and vote for board members, to recall them, etc. I am a socialist, but I don't think it requires understanding of the socialist critique of capitalist social relations to see that worker ownership is not a generally applicable model for extending economic self-determination.