New York Times tech workers form a union

Re:New York Times tech workers form a union by Spooky23 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:13AM (#26793322)

Sure you can. Usually there’s a combo of rank+time. I know, I’ve done it.

Collective bargaining is usually around work rules and core issues. No non-VP+ individual has the ability to effectively bargain re health insurance.

All companies have pay scales. Even massive unionized bureaucracies like the Federal government have the ability to compensate critical employees or critical skills. (Although your definition of critical may not align with the entity)

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Re:New York Times tech workers form a union by busterarm on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:23AM (#26793499)

I've been in three different unions before I landed in this career. Salary increases were fixed by time and position. Position was always based on seniority. No exceptions. You could try to transfer locations within the same company to try and get better roles (which is how most people got promotions, aside from waiting for people to die).

If you changed companies though you started at the bottom, guaranteed, because if you get moved ahead of people in the new company it creates an utter shitstorm. Management at the new job basically has to hate their employees and themselves to do such a thing.

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