Union would make sense for all who have nothing to sell but their labor.<div><br></div><div>If you are a one-person shop you are selling your labor. You need a union to defend yourself against forces managed by corporations.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You strike against corporations, and that means not just in terms of Drupal questions, but also as part of a larger struggle. But even in Drupal questions, it means defending the community of Drupal workers so that corporations do not dictate working conditions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Your clients are working for clients are working for clients</div><div><br></div><div>The corporations love it because it is a form of flexibilization.</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Sam Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sam@samcohen.com">sam@samcohen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Union v Non-union doesn't even make sense to me in the context of Drupal. <br><br>First of all, who is management and who is the worker? I run a one-person web shop -- where do I fall? <br><br>Do I get to join and if I do, do I go out on strike against myself? <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0pt">Union labor means
superior product? Not. I can buy a handcrafted motorcycle that's a
better product than anything for sale in the store. I can buy a
handcrafted bedroom set that's better than anything for sale in the
furniture store. Here, I've lived in the northeast, where all
construction and utility work is union, and the southeast, where it's
not, and if there is any quality difference on my home, it's better in
the southeast, at a fraction of the price. Home schooled and privately
schooled (non-government) children do consistently better (here in the
U.S.) in testing than those educated by union labor (although the
government controlling the curriculum plays a part there), on and on.
Unions might mean higher quality on an assembly line, but development
is not an assembly line, the last time I looked. I'd like a good
example of where creativity and intuition plays as much a role in the
product as it does in development, rather than rote, and the
end-product is demonstratively of higher quality because of a union.<br>
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Victor Kane wrote:<br>
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<div>All work done with union labor speaks of a superior quality.</div>
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