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Re:MIT graduate students vote to unionize by chmod600 on Saturday April 09, 2022 @11:29AM (#30968861)
It's like class-action lawsuits: sure, maybe you get $2.43, but the lawyers are really the beneficiaries. The individual is just used to justify the whole thing.
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Re:MIT graduate students vote to unionize by HarryHirsch on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:31PM (#30970033)
No, the lawyer's job in a class action is to hold the someone accountable to prevent recurrences. They did a job, so they ought to be paid.

If some company habitually breaks the law and causes damages to a large group of people you can either pray that the Attorney General takes the case (but they won't, they want to advance their political career) or a law firm will take the case out of pure financial interest. I'll go with the law firm.

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