Reply To: Kickstarter boycott.

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Okay guys, there are two sorts of unions in this grim-dark world we live in.

The first is the “in house” union, they are solely attached to one company, sometimes to one branch of a company like a store, and are, normally, solely focused  on issues that company’s workers have. This is the “good” kind of union because they are not going actively kill the company and merely force the owners/top management  to be a little less greedy (which they honestly need sometimes), plus most of the time  outside politics are not a thing (or they shouldn’t be anyways). However like any human organization, the bigger an “in house” union gets the more trouble it can get into, and KS is a growing company so it is a concern.

The second sort of union is the political action union that focuses on a whole profession across multiple companies, the union also has multiple branches. This sort of union is normally as corrupt as the fluff for Nurgel demonettes: they are often about  union leader retirement funds more then helping workers (see CA teacher’s union), they often have outside agenda pushers (see CA teacher’s union), they don’t care if the company lives or dies (whats happening to CA schools cause of teacher’s union), and they are generally power mad (see CA teacher’s union). If you want hard empirical evidence of what trouble they can cause, one of the reasons WargamesFactory closed their American distribution center and no longer  sell stuff themselves is because of a nation wide dock workers union strike. The US ports were closed and this hurt WGF’s sales that quarter  bad enough the guys in Hong Kong  closed their US operations and now use Warlord  as their main distributor and that’s just what it did in our little community (probably hurt a lot of KS projects as well, and I don’t even want to know how many people lost their jobs and stores closed cause of that stunt). Point is that’s the “bad” sort of union.

Also as someone who’s grand mother became the leader of her union branch because the previous branch leader was a blatantly corrupt scumbag and as a resident of California,  (a state where the big unions, particularly gov worker unions like the teachers union, call the shots like a crime boss and all the adults know it), I don’t blame  KS for not wanting union involvement, they can become corrupt fast and easy like every other elective body organization out there. Plus if the would be union leaders were not forthcoming with  confirmation of support its a wise move to resist unionization, particularly since the company  in question has only 152 people to talk to, meaning it should have been easy to get majority signatures and its actually small enough the boss knows he has a problem with “the office environment”  when 5  of the employees complain about something like the coffee maker or Jeff staring at people’s butts.

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