* Danny Spitzberg <[email protected]> [2021-03-26 22:18]: > A union certainly helped everyone set and keep healthy boundaries. I > have no doubt RMS was supportive. Like Paul suggested, a set of > community agreements or a code of conduct or a contributor covenant or > whatever is generally a good thing. > But as for the reason why staff organized the union — you may call it > silly, but here is the testimony in their own words: > “ I think that many people do not know that the FSF is a union shop, or > why. > It is union to try to protect people from RMS. > That's it. That's the reason. > Knowing some of the story about how this came to be, it really informed > my own thinking about what a union can do, and can't do. > Unionizing provided protections and standard benefits (like berievement > leave) for workers at FSF. It could not remove RMS from a position of > power. > I think the issue for workers at the time was that RMS held unchecked > authority. It did not matter that there was a board of FSF: you could > not tell RMS what to do. > Using the power that the law provides to force negotiations on a > written contract was the only option. > That is just... Not normal. Right?“
Those issues you mentioned you can take up with RMS or FSF, right? _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
