[devmunchies]

from the article:

> A company like Mapbox hadn’t ever unionized before, so it seemed like an exciting experiment

Regardless of one's views on unionization, in this scenario as an underdog competing with 2 multi-trillion dollar companies in the space (Apple and Google), this "exiting experiment" reasoning seems especially reckless, irresponsible, and naive.

IMO, at such a small company like mapbox, it's akin to mutiny.

[Apocryphon]

Oh no, mutiny in tech? Not as if that hasn't been a good move before (e.g. the Traitorous Eight, or the ousting of Jobs).

[devmunchies]

> Traitorous Eight

employees who left and started a competitor? how is that mutiny?

> ousting of Jobs

technically, the board had the voting power, and he wasn't even CEO. Generals removing a lieutenant isn't mutiny. If anything, he was planning a coup (mutiny) himself.

[Apocryphon]

Desertion isn't mutiny now? Acquiring Jobs' splinter cell, and making him a general, isn't rewarding his attempted mutiny?

[devmunchies]

either way, your examples resulted in employees leaving and starting a competitor, which were net positive for the industry. They didn't create a union. They grew the industry as a whole which was better than any union could do at the time.

[Apocryphon]

You are right in saying they created a net positive, and I am right in asserting that mutiny is not always a bad thing, which you are wrong on.