bargaining

Right, and that's the proper use of such anecdata -- to help you formulate your bargaining strategy, not as a bargaining chip itself.

So, like all good business books encourage, they're doing something creative/unexpected but completely above-board to improve their bargaining position.

How many people get hired for contract work that collective bargaining at a single company would make a difference?

Seems like people in the US have completely forgotten that collective bargaining was a key piece to advancing workers' rights.

And they have a poor bargaining position in the first place, thanks to unemployment.) That was an individual's point of view.

The reason it's much cheaper in Canada is collective bargaining through the single payer.

However, it's easy to be transparant about salaries when you deal with collective bargaining and don't have to generate your own revenue.

The idea of open salaries is great, but ultimately it turns all salary negotiations into either a promotion or a collective bargaining situation.

What bargaining chip do you have that they won't just kill you for?

Personally, I prefer to retain all of my bargaining control, rather than delegating it to another entity.

Code § 157 - Right of employees as to organization, collective bargaining, etc.

It’s a common way of gaining leverage during plea bargaining.

Calling employees in a poor bargaining position "slaves" is muddled argumentation.

I agree Google should return the best response to your search and not cut things out for bargaining points, but "dumb pipe utility" is incredibly off.

As a citizen I would fell better knowing that a Law define what can and cannot be erase instead of bargaining on the promise of a Big Company: "Don't be evil" An ideal solution would be that an international treaty globaly redefine for the best all the laws about copyright which are all utterly outdated and inappropriate for digital media.

I've told friends that I may return to the US "when the US becomes a democracy again." Unchecked police brutality is just one of a complex of problems I see in the news: The private for-profit prison industry that lobbies for more and longer incarcerations, the bail-and-debt system, civil forfeitures, plea bargaining, the unabashed wiretapping and widespread weakening of 4th Amendment rights...