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500 people over a relatively short period is noteworthy, even if one of those events only had twenty people in it.

Also those twenty people likely weren't in a union so I doubt they had service jobs like running the coffee shop.

This is Goldman Sachs. I can tell you with certainty those 20 people were not part of a union.

The real number is also not 500. It's closer to +1000. Many layoffs at places like Goldman are handled in a way that they do not appear to be a layoff to outsiders nor are they disclosed in that way.

The coffee shop comment was a bit of sarcasm but who do you think is getting laid off here? Millionaire VPs? MDs? Goldman is struggling to hire and keep younger managers right now.

why are they struggling to hire and keep younger managers?

Coffee shop workers/service workers are rarely unionized, even in the union-obsessed NYC/NJ area

what the hell does "union" obsessed mean?

A union is a group of people who unite for a particular purpose, often contract negotiation.

They meant to ask about "union-obsessed."

Yes, I thought the meaning of obsessed was clear. The poster was referring to people who are preoccupied with (presumably, `others'`) community contract negotiations.

New York has the highest union rate amount states[1].

[1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf

... which is approximately the same as the union rate for the United States as a whole, 1950-1970.

Your point? That's more than 40 years ago. The Unionist movement in the rest of the US is essentially dead (outside of government).

By that the commenter means (I guess) that to be pro-union in the United States of 2016 (where obviously things work swimmingly well for wage earners, without the union-enforced wage and job protections commonplace in other countries) is sufficient grounds to have one's psychological well-being questioned. Indeed, it may be a sign that one is suffering from a bona-fide psychiatric disorder.

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