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>“Our members and teammates work hard every day to build great products for our users, and the company cannot continue to fire our co-workers while making billi
by tucnak 3y ago
>“Our members and teammates work hard every day to build great products for our users, and the company cannot continue to fire our co-workers while making billions every quarter,” the [union] group said in a post on the social media site X.
I mean no disrespect, but fundamentally a company is only able to do one of the two things: either hire, or fire people. Nobody is taking this away from them, and why would they? Once the leadership has spoken, it's up to employees to either listen, or ignore what the leadership has to say. The union statement reads awfully like "We refuse to believe."
I'm not sure that's helping anybody!
- superb_dev 3y agoA company can do a whole lot more than hire or fire people
- wkipling 3y agoYeah option C and D. Both or neither...
- pauljurczak 3y agoA bit of evil now and then, perhaps?
- leosanchez 3y ago*Every* now and then.
- ffgjgf1 3y agoI’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to say, unions shouldn’t ever comment on decisions they disagree with because they are not helping anyone? > either listen, or ignore what the leadership has to say Or openly criticize those decisions if they have the guts for that?
- cdata 3y agoOne of the motivations to unionize is to ensure that access to labor is mediated by the laborers collectively. This often manifests negotiations between leadership and the union over topics like the one under discussion. I take their words as a call out to the aspirational future where the union gives employees a voice in the discussion about these kinds of hiring and firing decisions.