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Re:Microsoft Workers to Form Company’s First Union in the U.S. by triceratops on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:35AM (#34246776)
Are you not familiar with the Screen Actor's Guild?
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Re:Microsoft Workers to Form Company’s First Union in the U.S. by phpisthebest on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:44AM (#34246883)
Screen Actors Guild is not a traditional employment union in that your membership to SAG is not tied to your employment with given corporation. Members agree to only work with companies that have a contract with the Guild, and most members are "hired" by companies as contractors or via "loan out" companies or other such things not as w2 employees.

This makes the makeup, laws, and conditions of a SAG contract FAR FAR FAR different then what is being talked about here

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Re:Microsoft Workers to Form Company’s First Union in the U.S. by triceratops on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:48AM (#34246948)
The point is it's possible to have union contracts under US law where pay and title isn't based on tenure. Just because you haven't seen them doesn't mean they can't happen.
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Re:Microsoft Workers to Form Company’s First Union in the U.S. by phpisthebest on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:56AM (#34247066)
I have never seen a competent person elected as president either, I suppose it could happen but it is not likely under our current system of laws
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