Labor Unions

[anonymous48]

@Elliot

Have you read the deplatforming and fraud examples and explanations that I and others have posted at curi.us and here? Have you read Curiosity – Crony Capitalists ?

I don’t know. Not recently at least. I will read those links.

@Elliot

But the example I primarily had in mind, for this post, is Amazon’s treatment of its low-skill labor. Are you familiar with that? That’s more relevant to unionizing than examples about treatment of users or customers.

I am not particularly familiar with the treatment of Amazon’s low-skill labor. I did watch the Chris Smalls video on hight speed (and not with full attention) that you posted though. It seemed bad. But that is pretty much all familiarity I have with Amazon and their workers.

I think what I am most confused about is that I’m not sure how unions can be helpful in dealing with:

@Elliot

if the government changed the laws in a way more free market direction, we’d still have big corporations with a lot of terrible managers and abusive policies.

(Maybe I misunderstood you on this point though.)

From how I understand it, from a free market perspective, unions could roughly do what you wrote:

@Elliot

try to help and educate workers, and negotiate on their behalf with more leverage

But maybe some companies do not want to negotiate with unions. If Amazon doesn’t want to negotiate with a union, what help, other than educating worker, can unions have from a free market perspective?

I will read what you recommended. Maybe I find some answers there.