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Re:Bosses Are Finding Ways to Pay Workers Less by modarts on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:46AM (#41387409)
Who's "we"?

Software engineers? The ones who proudly refuse to unionize?

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Re:Bosses Are Finding Ways to Pay Workers Less by kerkeslager on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:52AM (#41387449)
I'm a software engineer and you don't speak for me.

There are plenty of software engineers who would unionize, given the chance. It's not easy to do. And sure, with enough effort we could, but that's a pretty big difference from "refusing to".

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Re:Bosses Are Finding Ways to Pay Workers Less by bestouff on Thursday August 29, 2024 @07:59AM (#41389901)
> I'm a software engineer and you don't speak for me.

But that's the whole point of unionizing: have somebody speak for you. /s

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Re:Bosses Are Finding Ways to Pay Workers Less by Jensson on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:13AM (#41389994)
> It's not easy to do.

Because software engineers don't want to. It is very easy to unionize if a majority wants to.

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Re:Bosses Are Finding Ways to Pay Workers Less by bluefirebrand on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:32AM (#41390119)
"We" is workers and laborers of any sort, really.

Software engineers and other white collar professionals want to believe we have more in common with our CEO than we do with a plumber because we work in offices, but I'd bet most of the executive class, ownership class, boards of directors and such see us the same as plumbers: we're a necessary expense

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Re:Bosses Are Finding Ways to Pay Workers Less by synicalx on Thursday August 29, 2024 @06:47PM (#41396129)
I'm a unionised engineer, albeit in Australia where unionising is simply a case of finding a union and joining it.
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