A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize

Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by kenhwang on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:45AM (#25631207)

Arguably, unions are the best judge of someone's competency, because its supposed to be a group of peers. It's already how it works in tech, software engineers evaluate the skill of prospective software engineers, not management.

But yes, there are gatekeeping effects, as the union is incentivized to prevent increases in membership or decrease in collective skill. It typically works out great for those in the union (and things like the Bar or Medical Association), not so great for those kept out.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by madamelic on Monday January 04, 2021 @09:05AM (#25631456)

>Arguably, unions are the best judge of someone's competency, because its supposed to be a group of peers. It's already how it works in tech, software engineers evaluate the skill of prospective software engineers, not management.

I'd much rather have 8 companies with bad interviewers and 2 with good interviewers than 10 companies with the union who block me because I made one of their evaluators personally mad at me.

This just sounds like it is ripe for corruption and nepotism.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by grumple on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:29AM (#25633526)

We already have corruption and nepotism, there are no regulations on the hiring process at all except for some impossible to enforce laws about protected classes.

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