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"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago by avidamoeba@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25996640

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-how-american-tech-workers-feel-about-joining-a-union/

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[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 101 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Maybe they just forgot to brainwash them with anti-union propaganda

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 70 points 3 days ago

This is likely the case with GM given that their manufacturing is unionised. Engineers just got a demo what that can do for them last year. They aren't getting the raise assembly workers got.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Silicon valley is full of H1B visa holders who can't speak up politically or risk deportation.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

The only workers left at 𝕏itter are H1B ones just trying to survive.

[–] odium@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This makes a lot of sense. I can definitely see those companies at the bottom having way more H1B workers than the ones st the top.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

And a person with an H1B can only change to a job within a certain radius of their current job and if it's beyond that radius they need to report it to the govt.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Edit: cause some jackass is implying I'm a bot - I should have joined a union and a union would've protected me from the mass layoff in '23 but that doesn't change that while there I never thought about needing a union because it was such a nice place otherwise.

As someone who previously worked at Google - they didn't have any antiunion propaganda.

They just, like, paid well, had top tier benefits, great perks, and had a good work life balance.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 9 points 2 days ago

I am a human being, and I enjoyed my employment at Google

Meanwhile, at Google

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago

That's the other option, of course: If your employees are happy, they don't need to form a union to press complaints.

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

which also references an effort to use the media to quietly disseminate Google’s point of view about unionized tech workplaces.

Bogas’ order references an effort by Google executives, including corporate counsel Christina Latta, to “find a ‘respected voice to publish an op-ed outlining what a unionized tech workplace would look like,” and urging employees of Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google not to unionize.

in an internal message Google human resources director Kara Silverstein told Latta that she liked the idea, “but that it should be done so that there ‘would be no fingerprints and not Google specific.’”

From the article posted by 100_kg_90_de_belin.

Google seemingly does care about their internal image, so they will only make their actions obvious when they fire you for bogus reasons after wanting to join a union.
Quite nasty in that they give you no hints about how extreme their efforts on this are. They monitor internal employee tools like they are cosplaying the NSA, but you wouldn't know before you are fired out of the blue.