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by Daniel_Newby 4690 days ago
American unions are political patronage jobs. They will quite cheerfully spend the entire budget digging holes and filling them back in.

If you do not account for this, you will have no budget left for technology.

Making the design an open source project is a major step towards European style (socialist) unions, where the unions help decide what to do and how to make it succeed.

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> Making the design an open source project is a major step towards European style (socialist) unions, where the unions help decide what to do and how to make it succeed.

The difference between European unions and US unions is probably a big part of the reason for the negative connotation of the word "socialist" in the US. If US unions behaved like those in Europe, we would have a more positive connotation.