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C1sc0cat
·6년 전·discuss
Yes I know that but normally you would expect a union to stick to that industry, also blue collar unions don't always know how to organise and represent professional workers and some members may not want "their" union to represent mangers eg the CWU in the UK

Trying to go back to the ancient one big union just wont cut it
C1sc0cat
·6년 전·discuss
This is why you need a union for IT workers to - tell the blue collar union to piss off or more politely set demarcation boundary's.

I worked at a unionised company in the UK and the CWU would have got short shrift if they Tried that with my members (I was Branch's secretary For the M&P union)
C1sc0cat
·6년 전·discuss
I did not think all union contracts where closed shop in the USA.

And this case why on earth where professional roles being represented by an Auto workers union.
C1sc0cat
·6년 전·discuss
A lot of early US workers organisations where called guilds and one of the aims was excluding BAME (to use a modern term) workers.

Also Guild does imply exclusion which is the medieval guild system which I think others have mentioned.
C1sc0cat
·6년 전·discuss
Probably some 24 year old intern with zero political nous
C1sc0cat
·6년 전·discuss
And how would an individual teacher negotiate salary ?
C1sc0cat
·6년 전·discuss
And in labour organisations "guild" has some unfortunate racist conations in the USA.
C1sc0cat
·6년 전·discuss
In political terms most Google employees are centrists, wet one nation troy or Eisenhower era Republicans.

And Prospect is explicitly not "Political" with the Big P i.e. aligned with a particular party - in fact almost all Professional unions are as they have members of all political parties
C1sc0cat
·6년 전·discuss
Unions are run by the members
C1sc0cat
·7년 전·discuss
Its not great out of the box - rather a WIX type of solution in my opinion.

A non technical person dumping there technical people and going it alone is as they say "a brave choice"

Does rather depend how dependant on organic they are.
C1sc0cat
·7년 전·discuss
mmm shopify will be interesting to see how that turns out for the other founder
C1sc0cat
·7년 전·discuss
Most sensible people are going to want shares, also not having shares is counter to the whole HN SV ethos
C1sc0cat
·7년 전·discuss
1 By definition equity and dividends must be shared equally between all members of a coop 100 members = 1%

2 Structure the way I have seen this work the coop owns the company (or a controlling interest) which employs the members of the coop

Coop structures can get complex normally most countries have special laws for this and it can be tax advantageous.

Coops can take outside investment but they have to maintain 50% +1 shares to remain a coop
C1sc0cat
·7년 전·discuss
I wonder what Linus would have made of the Compaq Portable or an Osbourn 1 back in the day.
C1sc0cat
·7년 전·discuss
Even more with mobile as mobile search with auto complete tends to generate partial queries you then refine to the query you really wanted
C1sc0cat
·7년 전·discuss
Thus allowing your competitor to take your place
C1sc0cat
·7년 전·discuss
Song lyrics really ought be from a rights holders site and not j random site with questionable translations - I have seen some lyrics sites that totally mangle the meaning of basic English words.
C1sc0cat
·7년 전·discuss
Or a surveying team missed some problems early on - and a bridge fell of its supports.

One Job I had (at a top 5 consulting engineer) was to reverse engineer the code from an onsite survey computer and build a GUI to analyse the data allow one of our Senior Engineers to look at what happened.
C1sc0cat
·7년 전·discuss
What percentage of homes get that speed ?
C1sc0cat
·7년 전·discuss
That's connection speed what payload do you get on average.