So happy my union managed to ban broad non-competes in my country ~8 years ago. Now it needs to be very specific if they want to enforce it (not just "development work in the same industry" which most contracts had back when I graduated), only applicable for maximum a year, and they have to pay your salary for the time they stop you working somewhere else.

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spigottoday 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What about health insurance?

	▲	matsemann 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		We don't need health insurance in Norway. ("universal health care" or what's it called in English?)

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autobodie 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	mitthrowaway2 20 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		How is a union any different in that respect than a corporation? I mean on a theoretical level. A true free-market firm would just be an association of individuals making individually negotiated transactions, with no employee-employer relationship, and no coordination on the side of purchasing labor. Of course that's very inefficient outside of pure theory. A corporation acts as a coordinating body that collectively negotiates the purchasing of labor contracts, and a union collectively negotiates on the selling side.
	▲	superb_dev 21 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I don't care about the free market, I just want food and shelter for my family.
	▲	theoreticalmal 21 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Sounds like the union negotiated a heck of a deal for the parent poster
	▲	arunabha 20 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Care to back up that definitive statement? Or is it just a pavlovian reflex?
	▲	throwaway173738 21 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		So are corporations.