Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing

Re:Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing by chrisseaton on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:46PM (#19434918)

> What do you do when all the best-paying companies in your industry lobby for things you don't like, leaving you few, poor, options for employment? If we must solve this problem for unions, it's surely at least as important to solve it for companies.

But the thousands of companies I could work for have healthy competition and diversity of approach to issues. An industry-wide union has no competition and no diversity.

> Maybe leaving others, sure, but this issue's... not an issue.

Say you were a Green supporter, and had a strong conviction against military intervention. How would you feel funding a union leadership that campaigns for Labour, following Iraq?

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Re:Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing by asark on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:54PM (#19435023)

Kickstarter's in the US, no? Did you check out that WP link? I don't mean this as a "did you even read the article" jab, but you mention Labour, but this is about the US and the laws in the US mandate that those working under union labor agreements may be required to pay dues, yes, but may also be allowed to (effectively) specify that their funds may not go toward (most forms of) political spending, but only bargaining and member services.

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Re:Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing by icebraining on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @04:59AM (#19440213)

Money is fungible; every dollar they get from you for bargaining and services, is a dollar they don't have to spend from other members, and can allocate to political lobbying.

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