unapologetic

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by unapologetic 7y ago
What do you think you will actually lose by forming a union?
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by unapologetic 7y ago
https://teamster.org/content/straight-facts-teamster-dues always question anecdotes about "my friend had a bazillion dollar bill from xxx" when people are pushing an anti-xxx agenda.
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It's not a very American mindset because the unions have been stomped on and it's hard to find a decent job now. Used to be that a (white cis male) person could go get a union job out of high school and they were set until a comfo
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by unapologetic 7y ago
> that can be done at the legal level. You do not need unions to exist to do that! Unions allow workers to wield political power collectively as well. Union endorsements are valuable, union money, union member donations. Instead of havin
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by unapologetic 7y ago
> you simply call out all Americans as being anti-union Obviously not all, but there are millions of rabidly anti-union people like you.
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by unapologetic 7y ago
> What do you actually have to lose? health care. It's a big problem. This is why many unions are pro-M4A. You start taking away the big things the company can hold over your head in a negotiation. In tech we have those things you m
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by unapologetic 7y ago
Why is this grayed out? Wrongthink?
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by unapologetic 7y ago
The US had a fine track record until they started pushing anti-union propaganda, started having union corruption and corresponding aggressive police crackdowns, and the government abandoned the working class. Now Michigan is a right to work
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by unapologetic 7y ago
This is also why every big tech company pushes coding education so hard. and immigration (no hate, I'm an immigrant because of it).
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by unapologetic 7y ago
Unpopular opinion: Large segments of the american population don't even real realize they have foolishly internalized decades of anti-union propaganda. They just think they are smarter/better/more rational. I disagree. I thin
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by unapologetic 7y ago
> They just shouldn't be allowed to prevent other employees from not unionizing and working without the union. Yes they should. Repeal all right to work laws.
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That's why we need to fight right to work laws. If the entire staff is unionized and ready to fight, facebook can't just hire outside staff. Too much knowledge. Also the historical union attitude towards scab labour is another way
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That sounds insanely bad. Why should they get 40% margins? Form a union, demand more money.
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Apparently if you just pay people a bit more and give them free lunch that's enough to placate people to the point they regard the very notion of collective bargaining as 'childish'.
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> Tech work isn't like coal mining where your health is legitimately at risk on a daily basis The way the game industry drives people is absolutely devastating to your health. > Anyone who works in tech on one of these salaries,
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by unapologetic 7y ago
lol, no. Maybe at a place like Valve, but that's a special case. a private company swimming in cash and having basically zero urgency to innovate or produce even derivative content.
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by unapologetic 7y ago
you still need people. Less open jobs because people aren't switching every 18 months doesn't sound like a bad things.
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by unapologetic 7y ago
This is good. I probably won't bother engaging with people who disagree. Also going to say to the "i can organize a better deal myself" types. Google and other companies with a combined market cap of trillions spent years ill
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by unapologetic 7y ago
If the arena was actually a profitable/smart enterprise then the billionaires wouldn't mind paying for them.
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by unapologetic 7y ago
If we can pass 718B for the military then we can afford to pay teachers more. Without even a cent in extra tax.
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by unapologetic 7y ago
Pro atheletes are part of the rare group of workers who get paid close to value of their labour. At the low end NFLers are underpaid if anything. They get a good salary but only for a few years and then they are in their mid 20s with a joke
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by unapologetic 7y ago
It's crazy. I can't imagine a "sports school" in Canada.
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by unapologetic 7y ago
We generally don't build stadiums costing hundreds of millions so a billionaire can bring in Ballet. We might build a new theatre where Ballet can be performed, but it's also used for decades for thousands of art projects. It&#x27
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by unapologetic 7y ago
"hurr durr I watch the sportsball" seems to be a pretty common view. It's silly, but I get it somewhat. I've been at a dinner/drinks thing before and literally every person was talking about football. It really suck
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by unapologetic 7y ago
Oh they don't. They absolutely completely have no way at all of knowing. Just ask them, no way of being sure. Course the data is all there, but they just really promise they never put it together and knowingly went after kids.
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by unapologetic 7y ago
> Whould you think the USA is the greatest country in the world and democracy is the way to go? Why would anyone think that? It's an absurd question frankly. You don't need to feel that way to be an ally of the US. Is there a s
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by unapologetic 7y ago
They all want to get to the point of being Tesla. Hiding features only in software, pushing out updates, and trying to bake in a living (recurring revenue) model. It's a problem for a lot of reasons. First off it's the complete de