Is anyone aware of any attempt (past or present) to form a union inside QCOM?
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NO TO UNIONS!!!! NEVER! Represent yourself and vote with your feet! You do not want those thugs and thieves taking your money and giving it to the corrupt. They were useful 50 years ago and more, Now they are the problem!!!
R &D money is coming in… so in theory Qualcomm can pay for next generation chips without cutting cost. That is why workers have power right now! Also if Qualcomm lets engineers go - they can easily get hired at a competitor that has FABs…. But as you state Qualcomm engineer aren’t bright and don’t understand the very business they are in… so sad
I don't understand why the employees would have all the power during a chip shortage. I thought the main driver of the shortage was not at the stage the majority of Qualcomm employees work at (ie. Pre-fab), but rather with supply chain issues impacting the chip manufacture itself. It almost feels like a back up in qualcomms ability to manufacture and sell chips could ripple back and hit the engineers designing new chips, since the profitability of new chips goes down if you can't mass produce them.
California is an “at will” employment state. This Qualcomm can fire anyone for any reason. Let’s see a visa employee strike and not be fired. The official reason may not be listed as them striking but that will not stop Qualcomm from firing them. Right now the workers have all the power due to the chip storage and will keep power for about another 2 years! And not one Orange 🍊 picker (that’s what a commodity engineer is) will do anything to rock the boat! Once the shortage is over Qualcomm will conveniently have cost cutting layoffs to get cheaper Orange picker to come in…. Just go back and read about the layoffs - it a cycle that can actually be mapped out
Relavent link for striking while on H-1B:
https://www.kolkocasey.com/immigration-and-firm-news/strike-h-1b
Supposedly striking would not disqualify someone on a H-1B visa from their employment, but I agree Qualcomm has immense power and things might "just happen" to work out in QCOM's favour despite any law on the books.
The sad thing is that the folks on Visas would benefit the most from a union, as the balance of power is so heavily in the hands of the employer.
Qualcomm hires as many visa workers as possible to make sure a union will never be formed. If visa workers ever stop working they will be in violation and get deported! It’s really genius! Hiring entry level vis engineers doesn’t even make sense there is no way that should ever happen but it happens everyday. Qualcomm has incredible political power