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Re:Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement by klyrs on Saturday October 16, 2021 @12:55AM (#28885650)
Funny thing about unions. If you form your own union, you get to write the rules. The agreement with the employer is a matter of negotiation, but the operation of the union is entirely the prerogative of the union as long as it's legal.

Don't want to operate a holywood-style guild? Then don't.

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Re:Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement by krrrh on Saturday October 16, 2021 @01:05AM (#28885682)
In reality most unions dominate their industry to the point of monopoly.
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Re:Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement by klyrs on Saturday October 16, 2021 @01:13AM (#28885720)
In reality there are almost no unions operating in tech spaces. The world is our oyster, and the only way to let huge unions into the industry is by voting them in. It's a space ripe for disruption.
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Re:Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement by pgeorgi on Saturday October 16, 2021 @01:36AM (#28885792)
> It's a space ripe for disruption.

I want to add that disruption is what huge unions excel at, so if anybody wants to keep them out of tech, the best approach might be to fill the space they'd otherwise sweep into unchallenged with a compelling organization.

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Re:Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement by Apocryphon on Saturday October 16, 2021 @01:39AM (#28885800)
Always insane to see tech workers claim that labor unions are inherently flawed and unable to innovate upon, when so much of Silicon Valley's own rhetoric is about disrupting everything else under the sun.
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Re:Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement by prepend on Saturday October 16, 2021 @12:05PM (#28888817)
I don’t like absurd rules and unions seem like an out of touch project manager to the extreme. This may not be true.

But I don’t see this as a problem in tech that needs to be solved. The barriers to entry and exit are so low to me as a programmer that I think organizations already have to compete to hire and keep me. So any unions wouldn’t do much to help me and seem like an extra layer of bureaucracy that would stop me from having fun while I work.

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Re:Apple fires leader of AppleToo movement by da_big_ghey on Saturday October 16, 2021 @10:47AM (#28888222)
But industries are always joining some of the mega-union because they have most effective lobbying, I will quit before I join aflcio or similar.
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