Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Marcotte
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Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Marcotte
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#3With the recent vfx unionization at marvel and the QA unionization at ZeniMax, I hope we see more efforts to organize tech workers.
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#4In my country we had mandated unions for tech workers in various states. I paid the compulsory annual fee plus an additional fee that I didn't understand and can't properly explain what it was for.
Not once in 23 years in IT have they done anything for me. Not a single time. Every time we pushed for raises and someone contacted the union, nothing came back. When the company was not updating our salaries against inflation (that's a thing here), the union made a deal in our behalf so the increase would be bellow inflation. Multiple times.
I'd like to see unions working but they are a joke.
EDIT: Just remembered that we constantly had issues with overtime and they didn't care either.
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#5Tech workers are usually so buried, heads hunched over the keyboard, focused on the latest project, that they aren't even aware they are being used. They straiten their back one day, look around, and realize they've been working for 20 years and getting nowhere. They got good enough raises, but forgot inflation, and it was really nothing.
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#6I guess the trouble is that we don't have any self-admitted exploited workers. Everyone is a temporarily embarrassed Founder/CTO.
With thanks to Steinback - https://hellyesjohnsteinbeck.tumblr.com/post/23486952183/com...
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#8Tech workers are usually so buried, heads hunched over the keyboard, focused on the latest project, that they aren't even aware they are being used. They straiten their back one day, look around, and realize they've been working for 20 years and getting nowhere. They got good enough raises, but forgot inflation, and it was really nothing.
In what country? Software engineers have some incredible pay for pretty low effort in the last 15years. Even before that it was a pretty decent living for most of the time pretty non-unique software.
We are talking about them as an exploited working class, wild to me.
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Or perfect vision person talking about contact lenses
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It's a person whose never decided to try and lose weight writing a weight loss book.