| ▲ | 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. |
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| ▲ | 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. |
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| ▲ | 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? |
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| ▲ | 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. |
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| ▲ | 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 |
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