News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off. Parent comment

Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by gruez on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:53AM (#37944577)
>Why do some of the most highly-paid people (actors) join a union and join the picket line? Even if you are high performing, joining up with other workers increases your bargaining position.

Perhaps, but there's also a real chance that the union structure you end up with ends up being net negative for top earners. If you're in the top 10%, what makes you think the bottom 90% won't vote for policies that end up redistributing your wages to them?

Also as I said in my other comment[1], whether this is actually true is irrelevant. All that matters is that it sounds plausible and some fraction of people believe it. Perception is reality in this case.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37942073

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off by ImPostingOnHN on Thursday October 19, 2023 @12:56PM (#37945371)
> If you're in the top 10%, what makes you think the bottom 90% won't vote for policies that end up redistributing your wages to them?

We already have the bottom 10% (executives) doing that. We would need evidence to be convinced that your scenario would plausibly happen if workers had more power and executives less.

[ Parent | on HN ]