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Developers are constantly complaining about things. Unions could fight for * Access to remote work * Pay that isn't adjusted by location * Transparency in pe
by UncleMeat 5y ago
Developers are constantly complaining about things. Unions could fight for
* Access to remote work
* Pay that isn't adjusted by location
* Transparency in performance review and promotion processes
* Better leave policies
* Better equity access policies
* Opportunities to fire shit managers
* Elimination of forced attrition policies
Software engineers are paid very very well. We have better working conditions than most. But there are still big things that bother people.
- dls2016 5y ago* Manage on-call rotations.
- UncleMeat 5y agoYep that's a great one. 24h on-call is garbage and unions could absolutely pressure businesses to have more reasonable policies.
- ceras 5y agoWhat's the alternative to 24hr on-call?
- UncleMeat 5y agoServices that don't have strict SLAs. Or follow-the-sun support teams.
- ceras 5y agoNo strict SLA is unrealistic for many businesses (imagine NYT going down for an entire weekend), but follow-the-sun could work if employees really want it.
- dls2016 5y agoAgreed, the internet is core infrastructure and cloud services will increasingly handle more and more essential services. A union would put the on-call rules/schedules/compensation in the hands of the workers, not left to the whims of an unaccountable manager.
- pydry 5y agoIm pretty sure if software development was unionized a brighter light would be shone on disastrous offshoring in the last two decades. A lot of people lost a lot of money for a lot of shareholders with a lot of disastrous projects and by and large it was shrugged off and swept under the carpet as management realized that tech couldnt be treated as a production line affair.
- Apocryphon 5y agoEven to push against something as mundane as open offices, which are almost universally disliked by engineers, but these days favored by management.