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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by icelancer on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:17PM (#16190385)
>> It is interesting that programmers (as a whole) seem resistant to it

Software developers and people in IT are probably two orders of magnitude more likely to be libertarian / anarcho-capitalist and conservative in economic views than your average union worker in another field. That's definitely a large impact as well.

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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by earthtolazlo on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:22PM (#16190421)
I think this is the gist of it. Most of the arguments I’ve seen against unionization seem to appeal to the inflated egos that a lot of developers possess.
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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by Avshalom on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:50PM (#16190672)
And a lot of "oh God what if people who had been working there for 30 years made more than me"
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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by Karunamon on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:44PM (#16190625)
That's a bit unfair, isn't it? Arguments with regard to dues, easy mobility, necessity, agility, and so forth don't seem at all ego-driven.
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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by Avshalom on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:56PM (#16190719)
Aside from dues: electricians, plumbers, carpenters... all sorts of highly skilled laborers both have unions and are basically freelancers, every bit as mobile as you could want.
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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by mcguire on Friday January 19, 2018 @08:26PM (#16191479)
Unlike most Americans, software developers feel themselves to be temporarily embarrassed billionaires.
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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by icelancer on Friday January 19, 2018 @08:43PM (#16191543)
Heh, I'm sympathetic to the libertarian viewpoint in many ways, but I enjoyed this comment all the same.
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