Mass layoffs, AI anxiety, and corporate surveillance have heightened interest in unions among IT professionals. Organizers who've been through it explain how to get started — and what to expect.
  • rynn@piefed.socialEnglish
    11 days

    Tech unionization is something that kind of makes me want to start another company.

    It would be interesting to go union by default from the get go. Yes I’d be setting up conflict, but I expect everyone that would join would be very into the experiment and we’d all want to make it work well.

  • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
    11 days

    Workers skeptical of unions in a survey of 1,900 tech professionals conducted by the career site Blind cited specific concerns: that unions are “not meritocratic,” “prevent innovation,” and “hold back earnings of top performers.”

    Looking at my non union job where idiots make millions and it has taken years to get even the basics of ci/cd implemented.

    • Dave.@aussie.zoneEnglish
      11 days

      that unions are “not meritocratic,” “prevent innovation,” and “hold back earnings of top performers.”

      When they make comments like that, they always assume that they are the “top performers”, getting the best deal already (edit: or on track to be one of them in the future). That assumption is usually wrong.

      • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
        English
        10 days

        I think it is more the opposite. They have worked with some people who are terrible at their job. And the idea that those terrible people would get the same pay angers them. And that is the trick. How does a union ensure the people who do a good job actually get paid better than those who don’t. The answer is of course that they can’t. This is because there is no objective standard for doing a good job in tech. Everyone’s idea of a good job is different.