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It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now (finance.yahoo.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now::Nearly 300,000 tech employees have been laid off since last year, data shows.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Interesting trend in the comments - technology veterans who went through the dotCom crash have quietly moved to union jobs, and aren't sweating this iteration.

Worth keeping in mind.

[–] rambaroo 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I've never met a dev in a union. What companies have a union?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I think NASA does

[–] dana 3 points 10 months ago

Google has one, but it's still very small at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Technology unions are common in public sector roles.

Probably because the culture is different in a few key ways:

  1. Government workers rarely even get a cost of living adjustment, without a union, even when they're critical. Politicians often have the final say, and often don't care about retaining key staff. (Or actively try to lose key staff...) This leads to a situation where the Union has strong public support, because the Union's motives are aligned with allowing basic government services to continue during political wind changes.
  2. A government doing Union busting gets immediately called out as Fascism. The government telling you you can't get together to talk about how the government should change - is not a good look.
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