Comment by matsemann
6 months ago
So happy my union managed to ban broad non-competes in my country ~8 years ago. Now it needs to be very specific if they want to enforce it (not just "development work in the same industry" which most contracts had back when I graduated), only applicable for maximum a year, and they have to pay your salary for the time they stop you working somewhere else.
What about health insurance?
We don't need health insurance in Norway. ("universal health care" or what's it called in English?)
Isn't Norway's government is funded by gas and oil? Burn down the planet so we can have free health care
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How is a union any different in that respect than a corporation? I mean on a theoretical level. A true free-market firm would just be an association of individuals making individually negotiated transactions, with no employee-employer relationship, and no coordination on the side of purchasing labor. Of course that's very inefficient outside of pure theory. A corporation acts as a coordinating body that collectively negotiates the purchasing of labor contracts, and a union collectively negotiates on the selling side.
I don't care about the free market, I just want food and shelter for my family.
Sounds like the union negotiated a heck of a deal for the parent poster
Care to back up that definitive statement? Or is it just a pavlovian reflex?
So are corporations.