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Comment by stevenjgarner | Hacker News Reader

Next time you're at a union meeting, ask them about any boxes they own at sports stadiums. Ask if you as a paid union member can use the box that you are paying for with your dues.

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While you're at it ask your corporate boss if you can use his private jet since it is your labor making him wealthy after all. I'm sure he'll be very generous.

I agree that powerful people aren't great but it seems ridiculous to imagine that union bosses are the worst offenders.

I think what makes it uniquely terrible is that it comes from someone who claims to be for the little guy, and reeks of hypocrisy. The capitalist is pretty naked about their intent, etc

I'll take the hypocrite who is acting in my best interest over the openly hostile one who is trying to fuck me over.

Not even close to the same thing. One is you giving someone money to do something and they spend it on themselves, the other is you getting paid from your employer who bought a jet with their return on investment.

While I don't like things like luxury boxes for the big wigs, a union exec would have the same justification as any business exec would. In fact, a union exec might have even more justification as I can imagine nearly their entire job is schmoozing executives and politicians.

An even better opportunity for the executives and politicians being schmoozed to meet a real dues-paying union worker.

You could make the same argument about bags of coke and keeping hookers on retainer.

At a point you need to draw the line admit what is simply corruption.

Not american, but our union owns summer cottages that members can use. Otherwise unions are really simple, they get % of my pay, so more I make, more they make and its other way around with my job, less I make, more they make.

Are you saying this as an argument against unions? Or as an argument for better, more democratic unions?

Or just look up their LM-2.

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