[kragen]

As an average Joe, I was able to negotiate employment contract changes every place I worked in the tech industry in California in the early 02000s. I don't remember having been faced with contract clauses that I felt needed alteration as an entry-level tech employee in the 01990s.

[lovich]

If you are negotiating terms you are not an average Joe. Average Joe’s don’t even interact with people capable of requesting someone higher up to approve the change. Average Joe’s get given a take it or leave it deal

[OutOfHere]

It's worse than that for the average Joe. The offer can be rescinded altogether if one raises too many concerns about the offer.

[kragen]

You evidently have no idea what you're talking about.

[lovich]

Then please provide me sources. What non single digit percentage of the workforce regularly has the ability to negotiate clauses in work agreements?

[kragen]

Like, every single white collar worker?

[lovich]

White collar workers are the average Joe? And the average white collar worker negotiates terms of their employment?

It’s anecdata on my part but whenever a white collar worker tells me they don’t need a union because they can negotiate a better deal, they get real angry at me when I ask them the last time they negotiated a better deal for themselves