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Originally Posted by Baronvonellis
Because in IT they will fire you immediately if you try to do that stuff, and hire someone else to do your job.
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its illegal to fire someone for unionizing, and you would have cause for a labor lawsuit if it were to occur. this is the whole point of the National Labor Relations Act. due to historically high pay and limited labor, unionization has not taken as strong root in the tech industry, but there are movements today underway as the industry becomes comoditized and workplace conditions become worse. we are all workers facing the same power struggle, regardless of industry. Indeed, its only through collective power and bargaining that workers are not jettisoned as they begin to get to peak earning years in favor of new hires for little pay.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/t...rganizing.html
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Just because many tech workers appear skeptical of unions, and so many tech companies have avoided unions, doesn’t mean they will indefinitely. Mar Hicks, a historian who has written extensively about labor in the tech sector, said the kinds of actions many workers had already taken, like the walkouts, were often precursors to unionizing. Workers eventually realize that their confrontations with management won’t deliver lasting improvements without a formal organization to back them up.
Some tech employees grasp that logic already. “I never felt I needed a union before,” said Frédéric Harper, a former NPM employee who participated in the organizing effort and N.L.R.B. case. “I reached a point where I think it’s maybe a good idea, maybe it’s needed.”
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You sound like Karl Marx , did you ever read the Jungle? It was about Chicago 100 years ago, but not much has changed in the private sector.
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is this intended as an insult? Marx was on your side, and saw the imbalance in power between worker and employer for what it was. you sound frustrated with your industry and the lack of protections and benefits, and for good reason! yes ive read marx, and the jungle too. the vast mobilization that came as a result of that expose resulted in widespread unionization in the industry as well as stringent worker protection laws, which brought a middle class life to workers in the industry. those gains have fallen away as worker rights have systematically been chipped away at by the right for the past several decades. as i said, it is a constant struggle. if things have been slow to change, it is because individuals fighting for better lives are demonized by their peers. i cheer on anyone who is fighting to improve workplace conditions and benefits, as that trickles down to all of us, even the non-unionized. it is FEAR that keeps people controlled, but if every worker walked off the job tomorrow, what would the recourse actually be? this is the whole reason unions hold power. one person walking out will be run over by a freight train. tens of thousands strong can send a real message that affects actual change and improvements in lives. we are stronger as a whole than as individuals. workers of the world unite, friend
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