Seems to me around 50 50 support vs against. Surely you don't actually need everyone on board to have collective negotiating power like the pro union people want? Why can't you just start one with the people that want to?
People are afraid to be targeted, and unions are not that strong in IT. Because we have fat paychecks, majority believes we don't need to unionize. I don't think it's any close to 50/50, especially on higher YOEs. And now, more than ever with the reserve army of labor on the rise because of layoffs, no one wants to have a target on their backs.
Pay would be normalized. Each level would be a mere 20 percent bump over previous level instead of the outrageous sums L5+ makes. Performance multipliers would disappear because unions would have to negotiate pay normalization. Nobody in tech who wants to see their salary as is right now would sign up for a union. Unions only work for blue collar workers where everyone is largely doing the same work.
Because no matter how much tech nerds lift weights and have strong political opinions (progressive or conservative), they are just deep down nerds who get smacked around. We’re just treacherous rat faced losers who never will have each others back and stand together.
This is accurate and sad...
unions are a scam
Yes and corps are kind and giving
both can be true
You need 50%+1 votes to authorize a union. Which you will never get in the white collar world - it's also why bankers, lawyers and so on aren't unionized. Again, none of the highest paid individual-contributor jobs (outside of entertainment) are unionized. Meanwhile all of the jobs that left the economy for the 3rd world were....
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What happens when most of your team is Indian?
Do you want to give away a slice of your paycheck to feed rats serving union chairman?
Nah we'd rather be laid off and replaced by H1B while raising executive bonuses.
It’s not surprising meta hates unions. Amazon and other companies have spent hundreds of millions in anti union propaganda. Same thing with government. Americans think big gov bad and put their trust in big corp.