Should we form powerful employees unions in tech
What you people think about forming strong powerful Employees unions against tech giants. So they can be careful while lay offs and pass more benefits to employees. Is it doable ?
Maybe if our current working conditions and compensation wasn't some of the best out of any occupation.
Not possible without political support. But agree that there is a need of union or need a law to support employees basic rights.
It’s possible and even if wages in tech remained high it would still be beneficial for most of the things people on Blind complain about: lack of hiring/advancement/compensation transparency, unaccountable/bad managers, no real work-life balance etc. Probably the biggest barrier in tech is professional elitism and the idea that high wages are like a reward, rather than the result of certain conditions (conditions which change rapidly). These attitudes might change in a recession, but then it would be mostly too late.
Most of the whining is from young kids who have never experienced the real world outside of their special snowflake bubbles. The truth is we have it amazing compared to the rest of the workers in our economy (unionized or not).
Dilf, you’ve no argument here other that the fact you get 🦴 in your mouth to shut it up
No thanks! Unlike most tech workers I’ve worked in a union shop before. It was awful.
Why?! I would certainly vote against this. We are already some of the most entitled whiny little b*tches in the workforce (opinion). Can you image people’s attitudes if there was an entire union of those same entitled whiny b*tches? Employers would start sending all of these positions overseas.
Or hiring underpaid contractors (*cougb*cough* Microsoft) to their most of their work, on top of offshoring. It really doesnt matter wh as t we do, because at the end of the day, the employers will do what's best for their bottom line. Whether that's mass layoffs or more offshoring. Unions aren't a bad idea and we have to remember where the 5 day work week originated. Where most of the current workers rights came from. I could tell you it wasn't employer driven. People literally died for the rights we have today.
I’m certainly not arguing the merits of Unions or belittling the benefits that they brought to early laborers and us as their economic descendants. I think Unions have their place still today, but it is not (currently) in our industry. We are treated really well and we have supply and demand on our side. Let’s not Fck up a good thing.
Then they will send every single job over seas
Bastards! If only there was some way employees could form an independent organized block of some sort in order to have more influence!
Unions suck
The H1b/foreign labor issue alone makes it a toxic issue to bring up.
Fucks no
Not a chance.