Speaking of payments: I was actually amazed to find out how much certain union leaders make. Some of them are in the top 1%, with yearly salaries of over $400,000. [1]
[1] https://laborpains.org/2018/06/04/union-president-pay-watch-...
[1] https://laborpains.org/2018/06/04/union-president-pay-watch-...
How is a union able to pay that much to their leader on the one hand, yet completely unable to help defend this Amazon employee against an abusive manager?
If journalists focused on developer unions for even a fraction of the time they spend criticizing Amazon, I'd bet we'd have some blogs that sound just as damning as the one the author has written.
Are you saying the Amazon has a developer union that could have helped defend this employee? Citation needed. AFAIK, developer unions have been advocated for, but don't actually exist (in a functional form, in the US at least).
Also, union leaders aren't bureaucrats.
Also, bureaucrats serve a useful function.
There's actually not a big difference, after one factors out the remarkable level of spin you've worked into your characterizations.
If you object that people in large-organization senior management roles can make that much, you won't believe what many corporate CEOs make. It'll blow your mind!
> LaborPains is a joint blog of the Center for Union Facts and the Enterprise Freedom Action Committee.
> We expose the truth about labor unions and the pain they impose upon free enterprise.
So, basically garbage anti-union propaganda. You might as well have just linked this video https://youtu.be/ONKkoiszVSs?t=17.