Why aren’t tech workers in countries with weak labor protections organizing unions? The Samsung chip employees’ strike and subsequent payout amid record profits shows it works. TSMC workers may be next. So what’s actually stopping unionization in tech? At places like NetApp, it feels like a race to the bottom.
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No one is afraid of unions themselves. However US domestic policy has eroded workers' rights in the past 50 years.
The system is set up that the majority of the population has no class consciousness. And the wages haven't kept up with cost of living, so many workers can't afford to go on strikes. Yes, folks in tech get paid above wages, but most of us live in extremely HCOL areas like NYC, the CA Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, and DC. A $100K salary in these areas is the equivalent of $60K compared to most parts of the US.
Workers who strike are seen as entitled and out of touch. Don't know if @OP is old enough to remember the collapse of the US auto industry in the early 2000s. Politicians and a large percentage of the general population were not in support of those workers and the industry collapsed all together.
And employment is at will. Workers who tried to form unions at Google and Amazon were fired.
So while unions are great in theory, they're a band-aid over a deep stab wound.
I talked to several people about starting a union at NetApp while I was there. Not a single person was interested in spending the time and effort to do it.
Weak topic. It sounds like you took some intro paragraph and slapped a NetApp-related sentence to the end. Try again.