'Traditional unions struggle to understand tech sector'
'Traditional unions struggle to understand tech sector'
"Ultimately, tech organizing is still evolving, with workers adapting traditional methods to the unique challenges of the industry."
BOY HOWDY they sure do struggle!!!
i've been working in IT for a little over ten years and then i switched over to software development for another 10 and i've taken my first union job with seiu very recently and they are SO OUT OF TOUCH that the benefits my union status affords me is in par with my first IT job from 25 years ago and is a pittance compared to my last software engineering job.
watching them struggle to maintain the status quo with non tech jobs informs my opinion that anyone who wants both tech work and union protections is fucked compared to working for faang or old-silicon like i just did. not only are the pay and benefits almost triple with non-union jobs, but the skill levels at non-union are unfathomable to you if you're only done union work; my new manager is such a person and we butt heads constantly at how things should be done because he has no basis of understanding of how things have changed since he's been doing this same job, and in the same way, since 1999.
seeing first hand the absurd distances that the union has to overcome to even be viably competitive in this space makes me pessimistic about any tech worker's future since it virtually guarantees that we're forever going to be at the whims of capitalist masters