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Re:Gig workers are organising in tech-savvy ways by vkou on Thursday May 07, 2020 @06:56PM (#23109353)
What is going to stop wherever they pack up to go to from organizing in a similar manner? Does the factory that the employees work in also disappear if the owners pack up and leave? Why would things be any different for the owners, under new ownership?

Plenty of profitable businesses can afford to pay employees more. The fact that they are profitable is testament to it. They choose not to, because their employees don't have enough leverage in the employee-employer relationship. Unions change that.

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Re:Gig workers are organising in tech-savvy ways by AnthonyMouse on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:02PM (#23109392)
> What is going to stop wherever they pack up to go to from organizing in a similar manner?

The fact that not unionizing was how they got the work to begin with. If they tried to do the same thing there, the company wouldn't have any reason not to move back, which the workers in the new place obviously don't want.

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