"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely
"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely
It's late at night, I'm pretty tired, doom scrolling in bed like ya do. Hover on this image for a moment, read the title, and look at the first entry. Think, "wow! Inuits are wildly pro union, good for them!"
I see some of the shittier names are further up. There's a lot of names there I wouldn't apply to, but if they have a union... that could change the equation significantly.
Sometimes the reason unionization is popular is because the employer is just that bad. There's a saying that how's, "the employer is the best union organizer".
So why isn't it happening?
because they picked companies which haven't yet formed a union or just formed a minority union (like Google). Many other tech companies have already unionized.
On top of that, some of these companies have wild union busting strategies.
Also Blind is a shitty source.
Someone needs to start
It's not likely enough.
Who are the people saying no??
High earning emgineer types live on an ideological subculture that is, more or less, petty bourgeois. They feel they, as workers, have more in common with the CEO than the janitors. Sometimes that is true but it's usually false. They are simply paid well due to being in high demand and will all eventually learn how little respect and power they have in these places.
Left orgs should be there agitating because in lieu of that the disillusionment often leads to adopting far right false consciousness.
This is narrative is getting more and more stale. It was definitely convincing maybe 15 years ago, now those same people are the ones spearheading unionization efforts in most US tech companies. Obviously it is always a mix of roles, but engineering roles are often the majority in most efforts, even just because they tend to be the majority of the company.
At every round of layoffs, the identity of the tech engineer as a tech worker gets stronger and stronger.