This article is more about politics than something interesting to hackers. It's a difficult line, but in this case the way the article appeals to emotion instead of basing on fact and example is why, IMO, it's flagged.
IMO, if this topic is important to you, I'd find a source that doesn't have a political agenda, and doesn't appeal to emotion. Unions, (love or hate them,) are political organizations, and often work by appealing to emotions.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
Edit: Remember that most people on Hacker News are either entrepreneurs, who do not want their employees to unionize, or professionals, who can negotiate independently and don't need a union to protect their income and work environment.
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This article is more about politics than something interesting to hackers. It's a difficult line, but in this case the way the article appeals to emotion instead of basing on fact and example is why, IMO, it's flagged.
IMO, if this topic is important to you, I'd find a source that doesn't have a political agenda, and doesn't appeal to emotion. Unions, (love or hate them,) are political organizations, and often work by appealing to emotions.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: Remember that most people on Hacker News are either entrepreneurs, who do not want their employees to unionize, or professionals, who can negotiate independently and don't need a union to protect their income and work environment.
For example, this article is considered on-topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492515
Even though it's loosely about Taylor Swift, it's really about hacking some technology used in her concerts.