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Re:Tech Start-Up Fires Engineers Amid Union Organizing Effort by peoplewindow on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:33AM (#16272411)
Which unions? I grew up in the UK and unions there were antagonistic in the same way. French farming unions regularly pull stunts like dumping cow shit on the roads:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2822120/French-farme...

The only country I've ever seen held up as an example of productive unionisation is Germany, and unions there don't seem to bear much resemblence to unions anywhere else. Possibly because of its unique history with respect to socialism.

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Re:Tech Start-Up Fires Engineers Amid Union Organizing Effort by gsnedders on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:38PM (#16275665)
> The only country I've ever seen held up as an example of productive unionisation is Germany, and unions there don't seem to bear much resemblence to unions anywhere else. Possibly because of its unique history with respect to socialism.

There's several other Germanic examples, including Sweden/Norway (and I'd be surprised if Denmark wasn't the same here) and Austria, and I believe Switzerland.

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