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Re:Tech Start-Up Fires Engineers Amid Union Organizing Effort by conanbatt on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:43AM (#16272010)
"The only way a union can effectively increase the wages of its workers is by reducing the amount of workers" - Milton Friedman
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Re:Tech Start-Up Fires Engineers Amid Union Organizing Effort by gaius on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:20AM (#16272346)
I like Friedman but this manifestly isn’t true: it’s about the ratio of capital (and management) to labour. Any profitable company can set this ratio to whatever they want.
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