A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize

Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by shakezula on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:47PM (#25639907)

I'm very pro-labor/pro-worker, whatever you want to call it, and I'd be all about using a different term than union. It's a loaded term that has all sorts of negative connotation. New decade, new world of tech, new term for collectivized labor. I will admit, the police union problem is a hard counter. It's a solvable problem though, I think.

Maybe we should bring "guild" back into fashion.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by minimuffins on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:14PM (#25640188)

Guild has a connotation of workmanship and craft expertise, industriousness, etc. I do like that.

But there is also an existing phenomenon of various things calling themselves guilds (there are various "freelancers'" guilds, e.g.), but they do not function as an economic bargaining institution at all. They're just professional organizations where people exchange contact info for networking purposes.

I think there's no getting around the task at hand: rehabilitating the concept of a union of workers with shared interests and goals (even shared fraternity, if I'm gonna be super sentimental). It's capital, it's labor, it's unions. New century, same basic stuff.

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