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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by disintegore on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:53PM (#31783399)
The better approach is to form a union, in order to address the colossal power imbalance between SpaceX's executive committee and the people who do the actual work. It's likely you'll get fired for that as well, but it's better than leaving in "protest". Elon Musk probably spends 50x more time thinking about his hair plugs than he does about engineers departing his companies.

Either way, to act like this "business relationship" is perfectly reciprocal is either naive or malintentioned.

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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by toolz on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:00PM (#31784314)
I agree, unionization at face value seems to be a great tool to empower workers. As for reciprocity I don't think anyone is suggesting it's perfectly balanced. If you're using that phrasing as a device to suggest it's extremely unbalanced then I would wonder what data you're using to come to that conclusion. It is, after all an entirely voluntary relationship being formed in a country with no shortage of jobs.
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