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0 pointstptacek7y ago0 comments

No? I don't understand how you're connecting these dots.

It's not like we have to wonder whether the union strategy worked here. It demonstrably failed. Amazon didn't buckle, they didn't accept Whole Foods unionization as a condition of setting up shop in Queens, and the union will not in fact see a single additional job as a result of what happened.

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blacksqr7y ago

"the union will not in fact see a single additional job as a result of what happened"

That assumes that all union organizing will now cease or come to nothing, and the unions will get no benefit from keeping a huge, dedicated anti-union company out of their back yard.

tptacekOP7y ago

No, it just means that this particular transaction was net-negative for unions.

blacksqr7y ago

So your argument is that the unions should have just taken the deal as dictated to them without considering their larger self-interest?

tptacekOP7y ago

Yes? "As dictated to them" is a weird way of putting it, since they were the ones making the demands.

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blacksqr7y ago

"the union will not in fact see a single additional job as a result of what happened"

That assumes that all union organizing will now cease or come to nothing, and the unions will get no benefit from keeping a huge, dedicated anti-union company out of their back yard.

tptacekOP7y ago

No, it just means that this particular transaction was net-negative for unions.

blacksqr7y ago

So your argument is that the unions should have just taken the deal as dictated to them without considering their larger self-interest?

tptacekOP7y ago

Yes? "As dictated to them" is a weird way of putting it, since they were the ones making the demands.

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