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		pm90 on Jan 31, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech Start-Up Fires Engineers Amid Union Organizin... > To be fair, that's a failing with those unions, and in a sense part of the systemic problems with US unions; plenty of unions elsewhere saw automation as inevitable and got training for their members to find jobs in other areas. Do you think this is because the Unions are different, or perhaps maybe the people/culture are different?

gsnedders on Jan 31, 2018 [–]

> Do you think this is because the Unions are different, or perhaps maybe the people/culture are different?

What is a union if not a collective of its members? i.e., is there a difference between unions being different and people/culture being different?

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