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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

At my work just all me and my fellow techs in a meeting we basically expressed shared frustration at wages not increasing at all in last couple years despite the company making billions.

It appears we were all individually expressing this and it boiled over cause nothing was being done.

So are there any organizations collecting signatures or potential members with the goal of forming one later?

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[-] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 29 points 9 months ago

It's so amazing to see a comment like this. For years and years, the tech industry workers were heavily anti-union. I'm glad to see the sentiment turning around.

[-] Montagge@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago

No, it still is. Most of the people I work with are boomers that tried to kill unions or upper middle class genx or millennials that think they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. The tech bros have definitely not gone away.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Were anti-union? How is that possible? Why would anyone other than the CEO of the company be anti-union? So many things I don’t understand about America, but this union stuff has to be somewhere in the top 10.

Wouldn’t it be more democratic if the voice of the people would be heard in these matters? Americans say they love democracy, but somehow I’m not seeing much democracy being applied here.

[-] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You are correct but many workers in the US (tech and otherwise) are only aware of unions as historical tools of organized crime/corruption, or are libertarian (which gets higher representation in tech circles) and believe the free market will provide for them and/or that unions excessively harm companies. There are likely other reasons but these are what I've heard from people I know.

These views are reinforced by corporate and libertarian (which is of course funded by corporate) propaganda.

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