• @[email protected]
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    1051 year ago

    This is the kind of thing a union (which Linus, of course, has said he’s very against) would help with

    • @[email protected]
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      261 year ago

      I kept thinking about that watching GN’s last video and how it’s so perfectly in line with what GN exposed.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Unions, the bane of rich people that take advantage of their workers via positions of power.

      • bitteorca
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        1021 year ago

        “I like unions, I just don’t think they’re right for my company” is one of the oldest tricks in the anti-union playbook

        • @[email protected]
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          451 year ago

          I like condoms. I looove condoms. I just don’t think they’re right for our relationship

      • @[email protected]
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        721 year ago

        he wants to run a business where a union isn’t needed.

        That is code for “I hate unions and will do my best to bust them up before they start”. Same BS as when a company calls itself a “family”. Total and complete bullshit to try and emotionally manipulate you to doing more for less than your worth.

      • @[email protected]
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        561 year ago

        That’s how bosses have to phrase being anti union. “Oh we’re a family here why do you need a union” shit

      • Neshura
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        241 year ago

        If a union isn’t needed form one anyway, now you only have to do the contract negotiations once instead of doing the same shtick of “This is the payraise I can offer you, please sign if you are fine with that”. There is literally no downside to having a union anyway if you are of the opinion your employees don’t need one.

        Now if you actually think a union would harm you as a business owner that equation changes and you have every incentive to invent reasons why a union is unnecessary anyway and how unions only exist in companies with crap working conditions. (Cannot speak for the US but at least here some of the best companies are well regarded by employees because of the union, not despite of it.)

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        221 year ago

        “We want a business where a union isnt needed” is a massive red flag. Kroger said the same to me at an employee orientation in 2016, at the time their starting pay was 7.75 and working pressures massive, as I’m sure they still are.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Do you honestly think he’d come out directly and say “I’m against unions”? Wouldn’t it be just as easy for him to say “I’m pro union and I’d support my employees if they decide to unionize” if that’s what he believed? C’mon now