I the idea of powerful unions, but semiconductor and software company workers need to band together. The H1B's are ruining these fields in this country. There is usually risk in firing experienced employees in high skill jobs because you need to find replacements. The H1B's fill this void in the VLSI and software fields. They will take what ever job needed to get a visa sponsor. If the lobbiest in DC cant get the politicians to put limits on H1B's, some sort of union may be able. Not saying ban H1B's, but make them actually look for a US worker and only if they cant find one give out an H1B. This is how it is supposed to work but you see H1B's getting the preference as US workers on the first day of hiring especially with the diversity mess going on where almost all US workers are removed from the stack of resumes and you are left with nothing but Indian females. Affermative action was never intended to give preference to foreigners.
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Because semiconductor workers are morons and love to be slaves to capitalist pigs who will gut them at any chance to turn an extra dollar.
It doesn't matter, intel is not an American company any longer!
The seniority thing is one of the problems. Most companies favor seniority but many times it goes overboard and is an issue. Intel has the opposite problem. Once you hit your 40's you are are the first ones fired. The hiring done to fill voids is almost always RCG's.
On top of the "leverage" problem - and a slew of other potential show-stoppers - there's a reason professionals don't embrace unions. If you understood the internal politics of unions - if you understood the disproportionate value placed on mere "seniority" for promotions and retentions - you'd understand why they likely wouldn't be appealing to a large number of people in this industry.
Unions tend to not recognize and reward individual effort. Which creates its own perfectly predictable results. If you think you're irritated with the CURRENT system...
And layoffs do still happen in unionized industries. The bar is a bit higher (the company has to prove the necessity), but that's probably not going to be that hard to do in the current "pro-business" judicial climate.
It's because of something called "leverage".
Go ahead and try to unionize. There are 10 people for every 1 person that walks off the job.
Unions don't solve anything. They especially wouldn't solve the problems you list.