Re:Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
by majormajor on Monday April 05, 2021 @03:07PM
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In business environment terms, I see anyone who takes a "you're either with us or against us" position as promoting a "mostly-cheating-allowed game." You're gonna let things slide for people on "your team" much more than you would if everyone is for themselves. That's one of the more convincing arguments against traditional unions, to me.
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Re:Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
by asymptosis on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:24PM
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It works both ways. When management form an elite club focused on exploiting workers, this induces sides. Workers who didn't care about unionisation are provoked by management to collectivise. Then these workers learn that collective action actually produces results, so the polarisation between "sides" increases.
Concluding that you're "against traditional unions" just places you on one of the sides.
Re:Amazon illegally fired activist workers, Labor Board finds
by nerdponx on Monday April 05, 2021 @03:45PM
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That's a good point and it definitely happens, but it's also somewhat of a whatabout argument and it's not relevant here IMO.
My point was supposed to be that a workplace full of selfish people would not necessarily be a deterrent to other selfish people, because the opportunity to be freely selfish might be worth more than the (estimated) risk due to being surrounded by selfish people.