[philipallstar]

> The workers are longtime contributors and organisers, and are deeply committed to the Wikimedia movement.

It always starts this way, and ends with over half the people not bothered but still under union protection, and cannot be removed.

[jonkoops]

Ahhh the American mindset.

[throwaway93135]

Imagine how high must those salaries be in union-prolific Euro nations, compared to the measly ones of those uncivilized Americans!

[RandomLensman]

Hourly wages in Germany are not that different from the US. Depends a bit on how exactly to compare - nominal, PPP, net/gross, etc.: e.g., average nominal is about 10% higher in the US, real median is higher in Germnay, ...

[throwaway93135]

Overlooking that we are comparing the richest EU state to all 50 US states, doesn't that further the point that having unions is are at best uninfluential.

[philipallstar]

Your zero-content bias is on display, but I'm not in the least American. If I were American I probably wouldn't have seen so much union nonsense.