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What leverage does the Times tech workers have in this negotiation? Why does their job specifically matter, versus someone abroad who can do some web dev and da
by syndicatedjelly 2y ago
What leverage does the Times tech workers have in this negotiation? Why does their job specifically matter, versus someone abroad who can do some web dev and data wrangling for a fraction of the cost and similar quality?
- shadowgovt 2y agoYou have more-or-less hit upon the reason unions exist.
- syndicatedjelly 2y agoWhich is what?
- shadowgovt 2y agoIndividual employees do not matter. Get a group of employees together to act in concert and you have a negotiating bloc that a company cannot ignore. Especially as the bloc grows. If the "someone abroad" is also part of the same bloc, management ends up running out of people to turn to. A rising tide floats all boats. (It's even more extreme in some countries. I've heard tale of situations in Scandinavian nations where a restaurant owner who mistreats their serving staff will find, in addition to the staff leaving and nobody being willing to scab for them, that their deliveries are delayed because nobody will drive ingredients to them and if their sink breaks down no plumber will take the contract to fix it).