• vineyardmike 10 hours ago
    California (the titular state) is not right-to-work, so you can be forced to pay dues, but this does NOT extend to public sector jobs. Reread the article knowing that the wealthy VC's initial premise is flawed from the start. They meekly mention this reality at the end, ignoring the agency employees have had to choose to be in their union or not. The author is also very politically involved, and unions serve as a political force against his own PACs and interests.

    This whole thing is just more wealthy business owners trying to turn the public against unions, which is an effort as old as unions.

    > The Real Fight: Public Sector vs. Private Sector Unions

    They claim the "Real" fight is against public sector unions, but largely blame private unions (eg. teamsters vs Waymo) in their examples.

    > It’s a very bad thing for California to be the innovation center of the world and Golden Goose of the state while simultaneously the biggest, most powerful special interests want to destroy it.

    Public sector jobs, respectfully, are not California's center of innovation. Again, bad-faith arguing.

  • tehwebguy 10 hours ago
    Just some ghouls trying to turn non-unionized workers against one of the only segments with union protections.
  • SilverElfin 11 hours ago
    It is odd to me that you could be forced to pay dues to unions, and then they can take some of that money to get involved in political campaigns, potentially voting against your interests. It feels especially perverse when it is a publicly sector union, basically sending taxpayer money back to politicians.

    All that said, the rich venture capitalists who are featured in this article are doing the same thing. Gathering huge sums of money and donating to PACs and distorting all of politics. I would argue they are a bigger problem in terms of drowning out the everyday American.

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    • regularization 10 hours ago
      > forced to pay dues to unions

      If I'm forced to pay dues to a union, I'm forced to pay expropriated profits to my company. And I don't get a vote on that (or a vote on the existence of the management, board and rentiers). The company political activity is almost always to find a way to screw me over more. I can just leave? So can the people at these jobs.

    • vineyardmike 10 hours ago
      California (the titular state) is not right-to-work, so you can be forced to pay dues, but this does NOT extend to public sector jobs. The entire premise is flawed.
    • isamuel 10 hours ago
      Public sector unions can’t do the thing you’re describing.
  • quarry_quirk 52 minutes ago
    Unions spending money on elections: bad, evil!

    Gary Tan and his VC buddies spending their money on elections: good, just even

    Because as we all know US politics has a problem with unions spending millions to influence elections /s

  • decremental 10 hours ago
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