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Re:As unions decline, inequality rises by ubercore on Saturday December 17, 2022 @11:19AM (#34029101)
I think you have a very US-centric lens on unions. In the Nordic countries, for example, unions operate entirely differently. So you need to be clear where your points come from.
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Re:As unions decline, inequality rises by BobbyJo on Saturday December 17, 2022 @11:27AM (#34029184)
> So you need to be clear where your points come from

They were responding to a post specifically asking about Americans' feelings toward unions. That made it pretty clear to me where his points were coming from.

If they were responding from Finland I'd be a little confused why they were responding at all.

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Re:As unions decline, inequality rises by ubercore on Saturday December 17, 2022 @11:33AM (#34029258)
Because Finland is a great example of unions working for the benefit of employees? Why are we constrained to only discussing how (some, not all) unions are in the US?
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Re:As unions decline, inequality rises by jasode on Saturday December 17, 2022 @11:43AM (#34029404)
>Why are we constrained to only discussing how (some, not all) unions are in the US?

In general, nobody is constrained to just discussing USA unions but the particular subthread[1] that you're in which was started by gp (Zeyka) was asking specifically about America. And that's probably because this thread's article is about American unions.

That's why your clarification (to poster wallawe) was perceived as redundant and out of place.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34028480

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Re:As unions decline, inequality rises by Jensson on Saturday December 17, 2022 @11:48AM (#34029480)
Because in USA every union is a battle. There isn't much to talk about with respect to Scandinavian unions, if you don't want to be in one just don't be, if you want to be in one just join, it is much simpler, while in USA one side forces the other side to take the same route, so you can't choose union other votes for what union you are in etc.
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Re:As unions decline, inequality rises by ensignavenger on Saturday December 17, 2022 @11:34AM (#34029274)
The above comment was clearly in response to another comment about how Americans feel about unions, thus it is obvious it was looking at American unions.
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