Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade

Re:Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade by mensetmanusman on Saturday November 04, 2023 @09:50PM (#38147212)

Lebron James would be an even larger billionaire. Also, he loves money so much he is afraid to speak out for the little guys being crushed in China lest he lose a few million.

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Re:Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade by CPLX on Saturday November 04, 2023 @09:53PM (#38147224)

Your theory is that unions are holding back wages of elite professional athletes and movie stars?

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Re:Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade by rrdharan on Saturday November 04, 2023 @10:17PM (#38147396)

I don’t know why you’re expressing such incredulity at the idea:

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/even-though-lebron-james-make...

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Re:Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade by flappyeagle on Saturday November 04, 2023 @10:52PM (#38147593)

Yes. The NBA collective bargaining agreement puts a max salary on players. In a free market LeBron would have made far more during his career, and the average player less.

This is exactly a case of increasing the median salary at the expense of top performers.

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Re:Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade by manuelmoreale on Sunday November 05, 2023 @02:11AM (#38149035)

And isn’t that a good thing overall? Like isn’t that an outcome we generally want as a society?

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Re:Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade by bigbillheck on Sunday November 05, 2023 @09:32AM (#38151449)

> The NBA collective bargaining agreement puts a max salary on players

If you check the recorded history you'll find that the NBA salary cap was there since the very first year of the league, and predates the union by several years: https://www.apbr.org/labor.html

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Re:Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade by flappyeagle on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:08PM (#38169038)

The team salary cap and the individual max salary are different things.

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Re:Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade by HDThoreaun on Sunday November 05, 2023 @12:14PM (#38153130)

The nba players union is definitely holding back the salary of Lebron. He'd be making 70%+ of the salary cap without max contracts that the union forced.

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