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hiddencost 3 hours ago

On the countrary, nonprofits need unions more than for profits. They exploit their workers more. They have fewer resources and exploit their mission to get more work from their workers.

legitster 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If I'm donating money to fight cancer, and the majority of the money goes to administrative staff, that's inherently a flawed charity. It's exactly what led to the downfall of the Susan G Komen foundation.

There's also a death spiral problem. If donations drop and administrative costs stay the same, that charity's ratings only get worse.

There's a reason most examples of successful non-profit unions all rely on steady streams of government grant funding.

skywhopper 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What do you think the core purpose of the Wikipedia Foundation is? Do you think the engineers who write the code and operate the site are “administrative staff”?

appreciatorBus 27 minutes ago | parent [-]

If a new software or hardware innovation came along that would allow the engineers to operate the site 2x more efficiently, thus saving the foundation and it's donors a significant amount of money, would the union support it or fight it?

whimsicalism 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, workers in non-profits are status-compensated as well as monetarily compensated. I don't think this is an argument for non-profit unionization.

wsve 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

"status-compensated"?

whimsicalism 19 minutes ago | parent [-]

people enjoy doing high-status things and will trade off pay for status. asking for equal pay as low-status work is essentially asking to have your cake and eat it too

20after4 12 minutes ago | parent [-]

Is working for Wikipedia somehow a higher status job than working for Google?

edit: I'm asking because my 7 year stint as an engineer at Wikipedia hasn't provided me with an endless stream of lucrative job offers.

whimsicalism 11 minutes ago | parent [-]

absolutely and i'm surprised that you don't think so.

e: and to your edit, i'm talking about social/moral status