The two comments above you are discussing how this is kind of what workers signed up for when they joined a union. Maybe SB leadership are assholes (and maybe they are breaking labor laws -- I genuinely don't know much about this topic), and not to call you out specifically, but I see a lot "drive by" comments like these that are just expression of anger, and don't really engage with the story at all. I see a lot of non-programming discussions get buried in this stuff, and it makes HN feel like Reddit. I used to always feel like more likely than not I'd learn things from HN comments.
HN stories about unions always attract low-value comments. I prefer the GP-kind of comments to the elaborate troll replies pretending to understand unionisation ("oh look! Less money! That must have been the sort of thing the workers really wanted when they unionised").
Matt Levine discussed this in one of his posts. During the financial crises the government asked JP Morgan to acquire a failed bank, which it did, and then the government fined JP Morgan for crimes committed by the failed bank it just acquired.
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> Lessons from the financial crisis are still seared into management’s brain at JPMorgan. After the 2008 crisis, it got slapped with the label of a bailed-out bank profiting from taxpayers’ generosity, and it eventually paid billions of dollars of fines and legal expenses after buying Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, including a then-record $13 billion penalty over mortgage lending. The irony was that it completed the takeovers partly at the request of the government, which had encouraged JPMorgan to acquire the stressed banks to prevent further instability in the financial system.
