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Re:Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Acr... by nostrademons on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:42PM (#18652138)
Unions =/= the employees they supposedly represent.

I can easily see a union boss say "Our Oracle employees' wages will be undercut by these unauthorized developers using FLOSS alternatives. This is unacceptable. It is our job as union representatives to insist on the highest standard of professional software, and demand that all unionized software houses use Oracle."

Much of the opportunity in the software industry comes from software developers undercutting other software developers. You & I like it when we're the beneficiaries, and not the dinosaurs being undercut. There's no guarantee (and actually a pretty strong selection incentive against) the innovative developers being the ones with political power.

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Re:Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Acr... by scarmig on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:50PM (#18652187)
Exactly like how all the unions representing ER nurses do their best to undermine road and workplace safety, in order to guarantee jobs for the nurses they represent.

Oh, wait...

ETA: more seriously, unions can push for or against bad practices, just as management also can. Broad generalizations almost always represent ideological campaigns more than an objective appraisal of the on-the-ground landscape.

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Re:Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Acr... by el_nahual on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:19PM (#18652325)
More like how the reason buildings in the USA don't have waterless urinals is because of the plumber's union.
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