[consulting] Drupal workers' interests [was Drupal Certification]

[Victor Kane]

Union would make sense for all who have nothing to sell but their labor.
If you are a one-person shop you are selling your labor. You need a union to
defend yourself against forces managed by corporations.

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.

Your clients are working for clients are working for clients

The corporations love it because it is a form of flexibilization.



On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Sam Cohen <sam at samcohen.com> wrote:

> Union v Non-union doesn't even make sense to me in the context of Drupal.
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> First of all, who is management and who is the worker?  I run a one-person
> web shop -- where do I fall?
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> Do I get to join and if I do, do I go  out on strike against myself?
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> Sam
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> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ayen Designs <info at ayendesigns.com>wrote:
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>>  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.
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>> Victor Kane wrote:
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>> A union contract?
>>  All work done with union labor speaks of a superior quality.
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>> Ayen Designs
>> 388 Bullsboro Drive #105 · Newnan, Georgia 30263
>> 404-271-9734
>> ayendesigns.com
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>> Ayen Designs is a tradename of the computer services division of
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