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Unions aren't democracy, though. They're seniority.

If you start at a company, it'll be harder to rise through the ranks.

And if you start a company, you'll be forced to go through union processes to remove bad fits.

Our industry and compensation as they exist today don't need the baggage. If Europe and emerging markets put price pressure on our jobs, then maybe we can reevaluate. As it stands, we don't even need pensions when we can FIRE in under a decade on existing comp arrangements.



There isn't one single type of union with one set of rules. Do Hollywood actors get paid by seniority?


Just when I was going to chime in that IATSE had seniority rules [1], I found that SAG-AFTRA does too!

[1] https://iatse99.org/job-referral-rules/

[2] https://www.opeiu537.org/Portals/local537/cbas/.SAG-AFTRA%20...

You can't escape it.




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