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Looks like it's a good time for Uber employees to start discussing unionization.
by new_account_104 4mo ago
Looks like it's a good time for Uber employees to start discussing unionization.
- 1270018080 4mo agoIronically an HR department is detrimental to unionization efforts
- new_account_104 4mo agoWhat do you mean "Ironically"?
- brianwawok 4mo agoThe department that wants to stop the creation of union would itself benefit from being in a union?
- bell-cot 4mo ago"One rule for thee, but another for me." Similar are situations where employees of a labor union are themselves unionized - under a different union - because they feel ill-paid and ill-treated by the union which employs them.
- jeremyjh 4mo agoI think GP means it is more vulnerable now.
- infecto 4mo agoWhy?
- cute_boi 4mo ago> About 90% of Uber’s software engineers are using AI in their work, Khosrowshahi said, while about 30% are “power users” of AI tools, completely rethinking the architecture of the company. [1] Either you lose job or you make a union. [1]
- infecto 4mo agoSounds like a bad idea. Adopt the future or get out of the way. This is dock workers all over again. Massive amounts of automation could be had but instead we have dock unions that only serve to increase costs.
- btian 4mo agoIf every employee is part of a union, what happens then when companies over-hire?
- kaikai 4mo agoUnionized companies can still do layoffs.
- crystal_revenge 4mo agoThe "good time" to discussion unionization would have been about 10 years ago when employees had much more leverage. But I quite vividly remember any mention of that here on HN back then was responded to with "I'm paid great and can easily change jobs why would I want a union?" (with many engineers only thinking of factory worker unions as a model and forgetting that very highly paid and in demand actors also belong to a union). You negotiate when you're in a position of strength, not while your value is rapidly falling through your fingers. With AI and a growing population of ex-corporate workers desperate for work breaking up attempts to unionize would be easier than ever.
- new_account_104 4mo ago> With AI and a growing population of ex-corporate workers desperate for work breaking up attempts to unionize would be easier than ever. I'm not buying it.
- sthkr 4mo agoNah, HR, Receptionists, Secretaries etc. and other fluff need to be fired or their division be optimized. Tech and engineering companies need to be lean and focused with less layers.