Show HN: Rank And File – a platform for employee activism
rankandfile.meFriends, HNers , countrymen: tl;dr Employee Unions are dead (non-existent in tech). A collective where employees own shares in the company they work for should give a voice to the employees with the management.
I am happy to launch Rank And File, a platform for employee activism. Think Institutional Investors but instead of suits, it is employees who own a large number of shares in their own company and act as a collective.
R&F aims to provide a private forum for employees to discuss company policies and act as a platform where employees can connect with legal experts and activists who will help them.
what aspects of this do you think can work? What won't? Does rank and file "work" for regular employees who don't have company shares? I.e. does it help people facilitate a union? You say unions are dead but this feels closest to a union (union platform) anyway. If the employees own the company that is probably a partnership. @nextts: I think that even having a single share is beneficial in that it enables the platform as a whole from becoming another venting place. Having shares means skin-in-the-game so I wouldn't go down the route of not having shares I mean I get this but creating better organizing tools for employees to organize safely and semi-anonymously is probably more urgently needed, no? @ideashower,
In principle, I agree . But the overlords won't care or will quash it down. This way, the employee collective wields some power in a legal way and the overlords have to work harder to quash it down