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0 pointsCryptoPunk4y ago0 comments

>>Would love to see some of your reasoning for how exactly this outcome restricted other workers rights?

It prevents other workers from underbidding them, by making it illegal for the employer to hire those workers due to the contract liberty suppressing mandate to engage exclusively in collective bargaining with the union.

Forcing companies to pay more than market wages is also bad for society at large by discouraging investment into such companies. More investment into companies leads to lower consumer prices which translates to an effective wage hike for all workers.

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jamil74y ago

> It prevents other workers from underbidding them

Reread my comment, they were never able to underbid each other in the first place they already had a fixed hourly rate, the strike and subsequent contract negotiated a higher rate so nothing to do with their ability to underbid was changed since it was never possible. So I'll ask again, how are did this specific incident restrict the rights of other workers?

CryptoPunkOP4y ago

The company did not agree to anything freely. When the contractors striked, the company was prevented, by contract right violating laws, from replacing the strikers with new workers. They were therefore being extorted, and agreed under duress. The agreement prevented other workers, who are willing to work for the previous hourly wage, from underbidding the unuionized workers.

jamil74y ago

Poor Foodora being extorted, forced to pay a living wage and provide better working conditions. I’m sure the other workers you’re referring to are really upset that they’ll now receive compensation for equipment and a higher hourly wage.

awild4y ago

Yes obviously, people are being taken their right to live in extreme poverty. Thanks for standing up to the little people.

CryptoPunkOP4y ago

It's completely irrelevant to human rights which groups stands to benefit from an authoritarian intervention. Rights are not predicated on whether you're big people, or little people.

And as it would happen, giving a select group of 'little people' special privileges, through coercive force against employers, results in higher consumers, which hurts all other little people and/or less investment, which reduces future wage growth, for all workers.

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0 pointsCryptoPunk4y ago0 comments

>>Would love to see some of your reasoning for how exactly this outcome restricted other workers rights?

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jamil74y ago

> It prevents other workers from underbidding them

CryptoPunkOP4y ago

jamil74y ago

awild4y ago

Yes obviously, people are being taken their right to live in extreme poverty. Thanks for standing up to the little people.

CryptoPunkOP4y ago

It's completely irrelevant to human rights which groups stands to benefit from an authoritarian intervention. Rights are not predicated on whether you're big people, or little people.

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