Microsoft Workers to Form Company’s First Union in the U.S.

Re:Microsoft Workers to Form Company’s First Union in the U.S. by IMTDb on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:03AM (#34246278)

> You want to have me? Give me good working conditions! I'm probably not alone.

At those conditions they also very much might not want to have you. And apparently the total package "industry prestige + working condition + pay" is attractive enough for just the right amount of people that they need.

You can argue that it's not a fit for you, but you can't argue that the equilibrium itself that has been reached between the industry and the workers is inherently wrong or that it should magically change in favour of one of the sides.

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Re:Microsoft Workers to Form Company’s First Union in the U.S. by jraph on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:59PM (#34249022)

Note that I was answering to "Doesn't that make it a fair trade?".

I can't argue that things are the way they are (including the equilibrium you are talking about), but that's not I'm trying to do.

"fair" is fairly subjective.

Free market is not necessarily fair (and I don't think it is). That may be part of the reasons why workers are unionizing in the discussed article by the way.

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