kieselguhr_kid

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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
The difference from a worker's perspective is that increased competition for their work should drive wages up, while increased union "competition" would undermine their bargaining power. But to address your points: 1. Union d
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
Why not let them undermine solidarity because they have all these hypothetical and unfounded worries? I can think of some reasons.
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
Well, guess they'll have to pay their dues then (which makes me happy).
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
I'm thinking of the student who needs a part time job here.
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
I worked directly with them, so I have TONS of criticisms of unions. They're far from perfect and frankly weak in the US. There's room for improvement for sure. And there are downsides - you're committing to a permanently adv
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
"I've had crappy manual jobs" and "I've been in a situation where crappy manual jobs were my only viable option" are very different situations. But also, why didn't you want more money at the time? Why wer
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
If they take it so seriously, why is it so underused? I don't think this is a lack of information; people who are highly precarious can't take these kinds of risks, even if they're just percevied. There are all kinds of de ju
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
Whole Foods has never been unionized. I don't know where you got that impression.
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
Go work there and then tell me they're not exploited. Edit: This was flippant because I was annoyed. There are a lot of people who work in well-paying jobs and have never really experienced what the labor that enables their relatively
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
Why would people want competition on a union? They don't work like corporations - competition weakens them. I think this fundamentally misunderstands the purpose and function of a union.
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
Why should a private company be able to break the law? Why should workers give up rights that thousands of us died for? This is a frankly disgusting sentiment.
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
I worked at and organized a local grocery store in 2015 into the UFCW local. Workers there have six weeks of vacation after a year, much higher than average wages and excellent health benefits. They also have a real shield from arbitrary di
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
I don't know what the alt-left is, but I imagine these extremely exploited workers are going to focus on their terrible working conditions.
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
Hi, I was a union organizer before I was a software engineer. I'll try answer your questions without much commentary: Is everyone required to join? No. Following Janus, they might not even be required to pay dues. However, the union co
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
It's not a natural consequence of economic growth. The United States has hundreds of thousands of people living in extreme poverty, if not more, despite being one of the most developed countries in the world. Why didn't all the gr
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
Maybe I'm naive, but given the level of unemployment and the decrease in consumer demand across a wide array of markets and fields, don't we see an increased risk of deflation without printing more money?
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
I completely agree. I live on the US West coast and work with people from Israel to Australia and let me tell you - it's a challenge. It can be done but it requires a slower pace of decision making, a lot of flexibility, and a team tha
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by kieselguhr_kid 7y ago
One of the shops I worked in used Redis as the primary datastore. While there was a lot of extra complexity around relational data (especially referential integrity), the snapshotting systems worked very well and we didn't have to worr