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 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What about health insurance?

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matsemann 2 hours ago | parent [-]

We don't need health insurance in Norway. ("universal health care" or what's it called in English?)

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socalgal2 an hour ago | parent [-]

Isn't Norway's government is funded by gas and oil? Burn down the planet so we can have free health care

	▲	matsemann an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The economy may be well-boosted by the oil, but note that all the money is put into a fund and invested globally, and only a small percentage may be used in the government's budget each year. So no, free healthcare isn't funded by oil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor... And while I don't support our continued extraction of oil, I feel like your comment is quite weird. How is it relevant in this context? Lots of other nations have public health care without having oil. Besides, the US produces many, many times more oil each year than Norway, so your argument is a complete non sequitur. Whatever beef you have, please don't include me in it.

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autobodie a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	mitthrowaway2 a day 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 a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I don't care about the free market, I just want food and shelter for my family.
	▲	theoreticalmal a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Sounds like the union negotiated a heck of a deal for the parent poster
	▲	arunabha a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Care to back up that definitive statement? Or is it just a pavlovian reflex?
	▲	throwaway173738 a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		So are corporations.