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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by lr4444lr on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:06PM (#16190287)
For the sake of argument, you could ask for protected work hours, overtime, etc. I don't think we need it for this industry, mind you, but more so because there's no monopsony on the labor market from a select few large employers, not because of the supply and demand.
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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by FussyZeus on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:09PM (#16190308)
Also don't forget it would make it much easier for individual engineers to argue back at Management about employing dark patterns, or directives to make apps/websites addictive and generally harmful.

For as much as people like to gripe about LinkedIn and their variously deceptive practices, marketing heads and executives don't write code. There are engineers in there making that stuff happen.

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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by ng12 on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:15PM (#16190362)
Do you think that's because the developers lack power or it's because they don't really care?
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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by s73ver_ on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:07PM (#16190787)
Some of both. I'd imagine those that cared enough, and felt confident enough in finding another job left, whereas those who weren't in such a position shut up about it.
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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by paxy on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:27PM (#16190460)
What makes you think engineers are against these practices?
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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by hueving on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:21PM (#16190413)
>not because of the supply and demand.

It's still supply and demand. When you have a monopoly on the demand side, you can significantly put downward pressure on the price.

Supply and demand doesn't cease to exist even when the market is screwed up. It just puts constraints on the curves. Google "supply and demand graph in a monopoly" to see more.

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