Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike
by sp527 on Monday November 04, 2024 @04:07PM
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What's wrong with being anti-union?
I'm extremely anti-union and the principle reason is that it drives up costs to consumers while yielding a product or service of at best comparable (but usually degraded) quality. Some easy examples are UAW destroying Detroit automakers or the recent dockworkers strike involving uneducated laborers demanding compensation ludicrously in excess of what even most people with master's degrees make. And all of that to drastically under-perform equivalent workers from almost anywhere else in the world. To top it off, those same dockworkers zealously guard access to those highly lucrative jobs with some very questionable tactics.
When you drive by a highway construction project that doesn't progress for years or, worse, a horde of workers most of whom appear to be doing absolutely nothing, there's a good chance that's union fuckery. When you go to almost any hotel in NYC and are treated with borderline disdain by highly incompetent staff while paying $500+ a night, that's union fuckery. When you wonder why you can't get cheap high performing EVs like those from China, that's union fuckery. I could go on.
Unions are not comprised of saints. They're doing the same thing as the companies they despise: getting theirs while fucking over everyone else.
I'm extremely anti-union and the principle reason is that it drives up costs to consumers while yielding a product or service of at best comparable (but usually degraded) quality. Some easy examples are UAW destroying Detroit automakers or the recent dockworkers strike involving uneducated laborers demanding compensation ludicrously in excess of what even most people with master's degrees make. And all of that to drastically under-perform equivalent workers from almost anywhere else in the world. To top it off, those same dockworkers zealously guard access to those highly lucrative jobs with some very questionable tactics.
When you drive by a highway construction project that doesn't progress for years or, worse, a horde of workers most of whom appear to be doing absolutely nothing, there's a good chance that's union fuckery. When you go to almost any hotel in NYC and are treated with borderline disdain by highly incompetent staff while paying $500+ a night, that's union fuckery. When you wonder why you can't get cheap high performing EVs like those from China, that's union fuckery. I could go on.
Unions are not comprised of saints. They're doing the same thing as the companies they despise: getting theirs while fucking over everyone else.