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Re:New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize”... by abj on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:35AM (#23499062)
Serious question - maybe the word "union" or "guild" is a branding problem? We could do some basic user research and come up with a more appealing name.(Think Universal Basic Income -> Freedom Dividend)

I'd be more likely to join an organization called "Gathered Friends for Salary Negation And Fair Treatment".

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Re:New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize”... by C1sc0cat on Friday June 12, 2020 @12:06PM (#23500580)
A lot of early US workers organisations where called guilds and one of the aims was excluding BAME (to use a modern term) workers.

Also Guild does imply exclusion which is the medieval guild system which I think others have mentioned.

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