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> I honestly think tech workers for all the big companies will be unionized in the next decade. 0% to even lets say 50% instead of "all" in 10 years is just no
by tick_tock_tick 4y ago
> I honestly think tech workers for all the big companies will be unionized in the next decade.
0% to even lets say 50% instead of "all" in 10 years is just not possible. The "valuable" employees (engineers) for these companies don't even want to unionize. You'll have to convince them that somehow it would work out in there favor before you could even start the effort and that would take years alone.
- nicoburns 4y agoI can’t see tech workers unionising over salary any time soon, but I can imagine it happening over something like the freedom to work remotely.
- thr0wawayf00 4y ago> The "valuable" employees (engineers) for these companies don't even want to unionize. I know many engineers that want to unionize. It's not that hard to convince people once they stop drinking all of the anti-union kool aid that has proliferated in the US over the last several decades. Look at pro athletes that are contracted under a CBA. They get to negotiate profit-sharing, minimum salaries, guaranteed raises, etc. Roughly half of the revenue generated by the NBA is allocated to player wages. Apple generates somewhere around $1.9M per employee[0], with a median salary just shy of $160k. One of the most common criticisms of unionization is that it would cap salaries and people would earn less. If Apple employees were compensated like basketball players, the average salary would be somewhere around $1M. 0: https://www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2020/08/12/ranking-revenue-per-employee-fortune-500-tech-companies https://www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2020/08/12/ranking-... 1: https://www.comparably.com/companies/apple/salaries https://www.comparably.com/companies/apple/salaries