New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike

Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike by shadowgovt on Monday November 04, 2024 @12:09PM (#42043642)

Ages ago, I spoke with someone who had experience doing union organizing in the steel industry about why tech workers didn't unionize.

I told him that the first step would be for tech workers to stop thinking that their greatest competition is other tech workers.

(Flip the question: "If your coworkers are low-performing but the union prevents the company from firing them, why don't you just go form your own company with your three closest buddies and compete? That's the dream, right?")

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Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike by CrimsonRain on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @01:40PM (#42054091)

How about you open a new company with your low performing buddies and form union with them elsewhere? Fields where skill disparity is extreme, only low performing leeches or lazy ones want union so they can leech off of colleagues who do real work.

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Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike by shadowgovt on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @09:58PM (#42056972)

Given that over half of startups fail, I believe the case could be made that people do what you've described all the time.

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