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Re:Public protest against Amazon by jancsika on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:59PM (#19204932)
For reference-- that's $318,160 more than Jeff Bezos' salary. That's insane.

How is a union able to pay that much to their leader on the one hand, yet completely unable to help defend this Amazon employee against an abusive manager?

If journalists focused on developer unions for even a fraction of the time they spend criticizing Amazon, I'd bet we'd have some blogs that sound just as damning as the one the author has written.

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Re:Public protest against Amazon by Apocryphon on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @09:56PM (#19205183)
The bulk of Bezos's compensation is all in his equity.
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Re:Public protest against Amazon by Mirioron on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @10:51PM (#19205379)
Sure, but that's because the company is doing better. If it stagnated then he would only make base salary. If the union does their job poorly the Union leader still gets paid.
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Re:Public protest against Amazon by ardy42 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @01:43PM (#19210690)
> How is a union able to pay that much to their leader on the one hand, yet completely unable to help defend this Amazon employee against an abusive manager?

Are you saying the Amazon has a developer union that could have helped defend this employee? Citation needed. AFAIK, developer unions have been advocated for, but don't actually exist (in a functional form, in the US at least).

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