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Re:Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized by greatscott404 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @02:32PM (#21923905)
I'm opposed to throwing the proverbial baby with the bathwater.
Re:Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized by shantly on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @02:35PM (#21923938)
Sure, then we can keep corporations around as long as we balance their government-enabled incredible labor rate negotiating position with something comparably effective for workers.
Re:Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized by greatscott404 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @02:37PM (#21923967)
We have that it's called "supply and demand".
Re:Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized by komali2 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @03:04PM (#21924245)
Glad you acknowledge that labor conditions (including salary) are a market.

As we know, there is a price floor and a price ceiling in a market, represented by the buyer and seller.

What we also know is that the price does not fall perfectly in the middle of that floor and ceiling - it benefits the person with more bargaining power.

A corporation has more bargaining power because it is a massive financial entity comprised of sometimes tens of thousands of people. Non unionized workers show up during a salary negotiation against that? One person with a family to feed and enough savings to survive maybe another 2 months without a job? Gee I wonder how imbalanced the bargaining power is there.

We allowed corporations to incorporate because of the advantages of doing so. We should allow the other half of the labor market-transaction to do the same, not only because it's fair, but because the union side reprents humans, while the corporate side reprents companies, which are not humans. It's kinda insane to want to give these non human conglomerates more power but hey vote with your values.

Re:Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized by shantly on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @02:50PM (#21924125)
Cool then we can stop providing structures that make the demand side of labor much stronger at the negotiating table than the supply side. I'm in, let's do it.