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These are data labellers... A union would probably not have helped them.

Imagine they all join a union... And they are all very unhappy and vote to go on strike... And they strike for many months...

Tesla will just send their data labelling workload to Mechanical Turk and it'll be done by people in India...

A union only has power if the company is hurt by a strike. And in this case, there is nothing beyond minor inconvenience.

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> Tesla will just send their data labelling workload to Mechanical Turk and it'll be done by people in India...

If this approach is just as good, why not do it in the first place?

At a guess, they were given tax incentives for hiring americans based out of an american office...

This type of work isn't a good fit for being done by americans anyway.

So the workers do have leverage? You're arguing in both directions.

>A union only has power if the company is hurt by a strike. And in this case, there is nothing beyond minor inconvenience.

So they're working in a horrible situation from a job security standpoint, and that should make them less want to organize? What would you suggest they do?

Why are they working at Tesla if they are in a "horrible situation"? There are plenty of other jobs in Buffalo.

Why are they not allowed to try to improve their "horrible" situation.

Corporations are allowed collective action but workers are not, seems kind of untenable.

It's still illegal to fire them for unionizing

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