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Re:Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles by elefanten on Thursday January 21, 2021 @03:27PM (#25863775)
Counterexample: the nascent Google employees union is taking 1% of total comp.

That’s pretty ambitious when the employees are Googlers.

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Re:Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles by sib on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:47PM (#25865631)
>> itsoktocry 2 hours ago [–]

>> When I was part of a union it amounted to 2 hours of wages per month, not exactly onerous. reply

>> elefanten 2 hours ago [–]

>> Counterexample: the nascent Google employees union is taking 1% of total comp.

Not sure it's really a counterexample as there are - in theory - about 200 work hours per month, so 1% of comp is pretty much equivalent to 2 hours of wages per month.

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