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It's downvoted because the users of hackernews have an irrational hatred for unions, so anything that justifies having/forming a union is downvoted

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You must be browsing a different HN than I am. On my HN, there's a lot of support for unions, including voices advocating for software developers to unionize while we're still in position of power over employers.

Ehhh, I still see lots of irrational hatred for unions. There is starting to be more support for labor, but this is still primarily a startup forum, so capital is still idolized.

I don't see that at all. It's very right wing economically and anti-labor.

I'm guessing most of HN is Engineers making loads of money who don't have to think about struggling in any sense when it's a reality that 78% of people in USA are living paycheck to paycheck.

Edit: I even see the HN anti-union comment flagged because again, HN is anti-union and anti-labor.

Again, we must be living in alternate universes, which somehow collided and started mixing in this HN thread. The HN in my universe has plenty of pro-labor and left-wing comments as well.

Or maybe it's a timezone thing? I'm in Europe, I tend to browse HN during our days and evenings. Maybe the threads visited by most Americans show up as I go to sleep, and disappear from the front page before I wake up?

> It's downvoted because the users of hackernews have an irrational hatred for unions, so anything that justifies having/forming a union is downvoted

Of course, unions are a barrier to "disruption" and there's a lot of anti-union propaganda floating around, a lot based on selective examples of unions' worst behavior.

Personally, I think unions should be stronger, but maybe we need to experiment different models for unionization and employee organization.

No, I think it's downvoted because it's a made up story. It's easy to make up stories on the internet that invoke the feels, much harder to verify that they are true.

Stop trying to make this about "unions vs no unions."

Edit: No proof has been supplied this happened to an actual UPS employee, nor has there been any official statement by the union that this is actually something that has happened. Therefore, this is fake news until proven otherwise.

There's literally a comment on this thread where someone states that this actually happened. And a similar story, though involving bushes. Ergo, not made up.

If you don't believe the commentators here, why are you part of this community?

Because not all comments here are people making up stories / sharing anecdotes, and it's relatively easy for me to ignore them. I was merely answering GP's question about why it was being downvoted.

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