That’s the point of a union – people in skilled and sophisticated work can benefit from it too, but the folks whose jobs are extremely demanding but basically fungible really need a union.

I don’t really think so, it’s a magazine geared toward management employees writing to suit its audience

I’m a tech executive… good for UPS workers. That’s what unions are for, to balance out investors’ demands and get people paid fairly.

I always thought the same thing! I only found this out relatively recently, and I thought it was pretty cool

Interestingly, while French was the lingua franca of Europe for several hundred years, it wasn’t the origin of the term ‘Lingua Franca’.

That term meant the “language of the Franks” and was the Mediterranean trade language in the medieval through Renaissance eras. It was actually a pidgin of Italian, French, Greek and Arabic adopted as being roughly mutually intelligible among Venetians, Byzantines and North Africans.

The reference to the ‘Franks’ is because the generic word for a western European (in the Byzantine, Greek world) had long been “Frank”.