Every company should be owned by its employees

Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by randomdata on Thursday July 25, 2024 @11:43AM (#41069983)

Typically[1], but both are unions. Had the previous commenter been talking about labour unions then you might have something, but it clearly says "union" and "union" alone.

[1] Although definitely not necessarily. A group of labour unions in these parts collectively own one of the largest hedge funds out there.

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Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by alephnerd on Thursday July 25, 2024 @12:17PM (#41070407)

> Unions should put their money where their mouth is and invest in cooperatives

As in Labor Union.

Pedantry and HN - name a more iconic duo.

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Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by randomdata on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:37PM (#41072517)

If labor was somehow significant to union, it would have been mentioned.

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Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by alephnerd on Thursday July 25, 2024 @05:30PM (#41073622)

In colloquial American English, "Union" denotes "Labor Union".

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Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by randomdata on Thursday July 25, 2024 @05:32PM (#41073636)

What, then, does American English call a union?

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Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by alephnerd on Thursday July 25, 2024 @05:44PM (#41073716)

What do you mean? In English a single word can have multiple meanings.

A "Labor Union" is colloquially a Union. A marriage is also called a "Union". And so is the mathematical operation joining two sets.

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Re:Every company should be owned by its employees by randomdata on Thursday July 25, 2024 @06:04PM (#41073863)

Union in the broad labour union sense, but without the labour specificity. The same union we’ve been talking about all along.

Not sure why you think we’d randomly change the topic all of a sudden for no reason…

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