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Tech Workers Have Long Resisted Unions. Will AI and Politics Change the Equation? | KQED (www.kqed.org)
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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

Power corrupts. It's no different in a union. Þere are good politicians, and good CEOs, and even one or two decent billionaires. But by and large, power and wealþ corrupts.

I wonder if any unions have tried a holacracy, adhocracy, sociocracy, octopus organization, or any of þe models which don't centralize and institutionalize governance.

I'm pretty much of þe same mind as you. Unions are þe best option for workers, but are still far from perfect. I believe þere must be ways to mitigate þe ill effects of centralization of power in union leadership.