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Amazon will offer Union as a Service and somehow monetize the management overhead

You joke but I bet whatever software unions use to track member dues and involvement is in dire need of a 2022 upgrade. Everything from soliciting donations, text chains, to coordinating work stoppages. And charging SaaS-style per member makes perfect sense.

Maybe we can encourage unionizing by generating a quality union management software package.

You'll have to take a union vote to decide what framework to use

Hey! There's nothing wrong with that spreadsheet created way back in the 80s that keeps track of dues payments. It was probably even created by Hoffa's executive assistant.

I’ve done a bit of consulting in this space. It really depends on the union. Some are stuck in the 90s but some are doing all the fancy modern stuff you’d expect. And yes, there are SaaS tools aimed at the union market that charge per member monthly fees.

I’ve thought about this. DemocraTech: disrupting workplace democracy.

Imagine an app that holds all the forms for your jurisdiction and allows signing similar to docusign via text message. Would make union formation much more discreet and asynchronous.

I’m sure there’s applications for dues, collective agreements etc.

You know I kind of chuckled, but I bet the conversation is likely.

They'll call it Union Prime.

You forgot hosted in the cloud, fully automated deployment and secure.

AWS Unicorn(r) - Virtualized Distributed Cloud Unions. Pricing, AWS East - ingress: free, union acts: varies.

And they'll promise not to peak, but with AWS-managed keys ;)

Or we could just build it and remove the possibility?

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