Exactly. However, in this giddy era of deregulation and neoliberalism, it's clear that we need to form our own opposition to the unrestrained exercise of predatory capitalism. Unions are also a great way to do that.
I hear a lot of young people say similar things. But I want you to imagine that there may be a year or even more in your work career when you may be less competent due to illness or pregnancy or family troubles or aging. Your fellow employees will pick up the slack and hopefully not complain about how much you suck, and you will still have a job when you recover and don’t suck anymore.
Know that bosses will ALWAYS act like they would totally pay you more if they could just avoid these pesky pay scales...but they wouldn’t really do that. They’d pay you less even if you are more competent, and they’d do it because of the color of your skin, your genetalia, your religion, your age, or the number of people looking for a job. They like to pretend because the union keeps them from total exploitation.
And the moral of this and similar stories is always, as we say here in the Antipodes, join your bloody union. It always makes me tired to hear people at work go on about how the union does nothing: "Did you enjoy your weekend? Like to keep it? How about our 15 days paid sick leave and four weeks annual leave? That's pretty cool isn't it? And the payrise under the agreement that kicks in every January and July is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. The union got us all of those."
Never worked in a union shop. However given how IT workers are treated - I'm paying much more attention now. ..and I do have senior and management in my title!
I may see if Mrs Rib recalls why her family moved here to NC decades ago: Pappy Mrs Rib was CxO to a mfg firm that relocated here to avoid unions...
Few people know that.
Exactly. However, in this giddy era of deregulation and neoliberalism, it's clear that we need to form our own opposition to the unrestrained exercise of predatory capitalism. Unions are also a great way to do that.
Aw jeez. Same argument as everywhere. Mealy-mouthed blather. Yikes.
Really? God, it's like the IMF with a third-world nation. The greed is appalling!
haha right?
"Gimme all yer lupines!"
that's exactly what I thought when I read it. Like, do these people think that everyone they ever heard utter that word was mispronouncing it?
More petty bourgeois moralism. What about fighting the over-privileged bosses? Just on principle, fellow proles.
"We're concerned with the misappropriation of unions for use by privileged workers,"
You'll note it's senior staff with the exquisite morals.
Cf. to beefing by NFL players that BLM. "They can't complain, they're rich!"
The assassination of the American union is among our biggest failings.
Unions are terrific. One of my regrets in life is that I never had a job where I could join one.
I hear a lot of young people say similar things. But I want you to imagine that there may be a year or even more in your work career when you may be less competent due to illness or pregnancy or family troubles or aging. Your fellow employees will pick up the slack and hopefully not complain about how much you suck, and you will still have a job when you recover and don’t suck anymore.
Know that bosses will ALWAYS act like they would totally pay you more if they could just avoid these pesky pay scales...but they wouldn’t really do that. They’d pay you less even if you are more competent, and they’d do it because of the color of your skin, your genetalia, your religion, your age, or the number of people looking for a job. They like to pretend because the union keeps them from total exploitation.
And the moral of this and similar stories is always, as we say here in the Antipodes, join your bloody union. It always makes me tired to hear people at work go on about how the union does nothing: "Did you enjoy your weekend? Like to keep it? How about our 15 days paid sick leave and four weeks annual leave? That's pretty cool isn't it? And the payrise under the agreement that kicks in every January and July is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. The union got us all of those."
Do these twits think there are only so many unions to go around, so having one at Kickstarter would mean some other company couldn't have one?
Unreal.
Me, too.We are an all Toy household.Shortest lived one lasted 400K+
Never worked in a union shop. However given how IT workers are treated - I'm paying much more attention now. ..and I do have senior and management in my title!
I may see if Mrs Rib recalls why her family moved here to NC decades ago: Pappy Mrs Rib was CxO to a mfg firm that relocated here to avoid unions...
What say brother? How's things in the great north?