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I'm sorry you're choosing to let corporations exploit you instead of fighting with us for better wages. But that's kind of on you, not on us.
by malermeister 3y ago
I'm sorry you're choosing to let corporations exploit you instead of fighting with us for better wages. But that's kind of on you, not on us.
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- washadjeffmad 3y agoPeople can have bad individual experiences with unions. A not very pro-union friend ("They're not all good, you know.") told me about her early career as a typesetter, how she taught herself how to repair the linotypes and letterpresses, the difficulties after unionization, and their shop's eventual shuttering. She felt that the union had taken things over and then failed them. When I asked her how the hell non-computerized typesetting was even still a job in the 80s, she looked kind of thoughtful for a minute and just said "huh".
- cityofdelusion 3y agoThe world is shades of grey, not black and white. My only experience with union work is as a non-union developer brought in to fix the software of union government developers. They were legitimately terrible at their jobs, unable to code anything or be useful outside of QA work. I made significantly more money than their capped government salaries as well. The flip side is their job, healthcare, and families were much more secure than mine. I’m fine with people being lifted up, but it’s very frustrating when your coworkers carry no burden and do nothing. I have no idea about other industry, but in government it’s so hard to let people go that no one bothers to even start the paperwork, they just hire non-union contractors to do the actual labor. Worst of all worlds. This is average middle America, not a tech hub in any way. I’m a fairly average dev.