> the HN community believes that every other organization and industry can be disrupted...EXCEPT unions.
The thing about this is, when other organizations and industry are "disrupted", according to the usual west-coast definition of "disrupt" this typically means exploiting a market to the benefit of shareholders by eroding labor standards. What does one erode while disrupting a union, when those same standards are that org's goal?
The only thing I can think of that the modern form of "disruption" would do to unions is to allow them to "screw over" their members more efficiently.
Sounds good. Tech unions can exploit a market to the benefit of shareholders by eroding labor standards.
- The market is labor
- The shareholders are the union members
- The labor standards are the current status quo, which made Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe owners and managers believe this (https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/01/16/37...) was acceptable until the government forced their hand on it. "Erosion," here, would be a disruption that makes the status quo worse for company owners... Makes that kind of one-sided back-room dealing no longer safe for the companies that engage in it, since they no longer fear merely government intervention, but their own employees banding together to say "Knock it off."
The thing about this is, when other organizations and industry are "disrupted", according to the usual west-coast definition of "disrupt" this typically means exploiting a market to the benefit of shareholders by eroding labor standards. What does one erode while disrupting a union, when those same standards are that org's goal?
The only thing I can think of that the modern form of "disruption" would do to unions is to allow them to "screw over" their members more efficiently.