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How to loudly announce you've never been in a union.

I am an engineer in a unionized workplace. It's great. I make a ton of money, management is respectful, and work life balance is not based on the whims of whoever has a self-imposed emergency this week. My work is satisfying, and I have an avenue for resolving any complaints I might have with management.

Nobody tells me 'what I can't do' like some kind of anti-union cartoon that some people seem to think represents reality.

Unions aren't for coal miners. They are for anyone who cares about not being abused by the power imbalance inherent to the relationship between owners and laborers.

You are not a temporarily embarrassed billionaire. You have more in common with the steelworkers you seem to disdain so much than you do with them.



> power imbalance inherent to the relationship between owners and laborers.

Software developers aren’t laborers, they’re the capital.


You're paid by writing code. The code is the company's capital, YOU are the company's labor. Unless you somehow expect to spend yourself at the grocery store, you've never been capital.




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