This article is silly. Entrepreneurs and unions are natural enemies.
A dynamic entrepreneurial environment is the last thing unions want. In a competitive market with many players and new startups improving things regularly, the union shop will have higher costs than their competitors and they will go out of business. Even if costs are equal right now, a startup will come along and disrupt the industry, destroying any business with rigid contracts.
And if entrepreneurs work with unions, they are playing with fire. What happens when a startup invents the UnionLaborTron (a machine which replaces union laborers)? Work rules incompatible with rapid iteration. My startup employs low skill labor and we have a new workflow every week. If I needed to negotiate with a union rep every time I do that, we would shut down.
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This article is silly. Entrepreneurs and unions are natural enemies.
A dynamic entrepreneurial environment is the last thing unions want. In a competitive market with many players and new startups improving things regularly, the union shop will have higher costs than their competitors and they will go out of business. Even if costs are equal right now, a startup will come along and disrupt the industry, destroying any business with rigid contracts.
And if entrepreneurs work with unions, they are playing with fire. What happens when a startup invents the UnionLaborTron (a machine which replaces union laborers)? Work rules incompatible with rapid iteration. My startup employs low skill labor and we have a new workflow every week. If I needed to negotiate with a union rep every time I do that, we would shut down.