• spauldo@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Unions are useful for a lot of fields, but once you get into fields that are highly specialized they only get in the way.

      When a company relies on a small team of difficult to replace experts for the majority of their revenue, they either treat their employees well or they go out of business. A union in that situation serves no purpose.

      Back when I was younger and worked regular jobs, I would have loved to join a union. Now? No way. A union would decrease my bargaining power.

      • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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        Lmao bullshit. A Union is literally an equalizer when it comes to bargaining power. It’s why they were created in the first place. You claim that being specialized in a field automatically makes you immune to wage stagnation, but if you as a worker(even in a specialized field) are dealing with a monopsony, you are fucked.

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          Oftentimes being in a specialized field is a double edged sword for your own wage too. Sure, there’s not many of you for them to hire, but also there’s not many of them for you to go to and if you piss any of them off, you’re screwed out of any future job.

          Making a union even more important I think.

    • ElleChaise@kbin.social
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      Oh come on, we’re top of the list for diabetes, cancer, liver disease, illiteracy, excess deaths, shootings, percentage of citizens who will never hold a college degree, and cheapest labour. USA, USA!

  • Funderpants @lemmy.ca
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    I’ve always said if you don’t like the union you’ve got the right to work, somewhere the fuck else.

  • InfiniteLoop@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    why does that initiative “only” need 383k signatures when the abortion initiative needs 600k? i’m assuming they don’t already have 220k signatures to explain the offset