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How would you describe your experience being a unionized digital worker?

• sanxiyn 6y ago
  It's pretty good. For example, initially the company was reluctant to transition to remote work for COVID-19 pandemic, but workers' concern was well represented. My impression is that among South Korean digital companies, unionized companies transitioned to remote work earlier.
  • dudul 6y ago
    1) COVID is a highly atypical situation. Other than during a once in a lifetime global pandemic, which benefits/drawbacks do you experience? 2) Most US companies had no problem going full remote some time during the spring of 2020, doesn't look like "unions" play a big role there.
    • sanxiyn 6y ago
      I just used the recent example that comes to mind. The most prominent benefit is fight over overtime pay. In fact overtime pay is what triggered unionization in South Korean IT sector. Pre-unionization, basically no one in South Korean IT paid overtime. It is legally a gray area. Then Naver (the dominant search engine in South Korea) unionized over overtime pay and won. Other companies, including Kakao, quickly followed and all won. Naver union shared their know-how to other union organizers.