Dearest computer workers of the world, I ask for your eyes.
Around us we are seeing our expertise being taking advantage of by low pay, shitty management and no collective bargaining on anything. We get what we get when we are hired.
It is time to take the power back!
We are the ones in control of tech they don't understand or care to. We are the ones creating everything we see now from this website to some fucking fart app. Without us there would be no smart phones, faster CPUs or anything. They are treating us like shit.
WE MUST UNITE AND DEMAND RIGHTS AND FAIR TREATMENT
Unlikely, you can get fired for even mentioning unionisation in a lot of workplaces. What you really need to be thinking of is hatching a legal scam in technology form, the ultimate in bloatware nothingness that everybody is going to want. Maybe a app that claims to protect workers rights, it's only $80 a year (a tiny percentage of your paycheck and is tax deductible) but doesn't do anything.
Jonathan Ward
>It is time to take the power back! Yeah, no. The problem with "tech worker's rights" or whatever is that programmers think they're skilled engineers etc, and companies who hire programmers think they're factory workers with keyboards. You're not going to be able to fix that disconnect from the programmer's end.
Ian Phillips
Unions are for basedboys who can’t prove their worth.
Ayden Turner
You just make yourself useful by fixing problems in software that you causes
Brayden Rodriguez
Okay, why do you think in an age where pro-immigration and open borders activists have ruined any power a native worker has, especially in sectors such as IT where there is a huge amount of foreign competition, unionization has ANY chance?
Before you demand Unionization, you should actually start with giving the workers in your country any amount of power, meaning a total stop to (work) immigration and beginning the deportation of foreign workers. Before that has happened, you don't even need to bother trying, because any worker who gets too uppity is just replaced by two pajeets.
Also communist theory entirely fails to capture this issue, as in these cases the means of productions are ALREADY in the hands of the workers and still the exact same company structure is maintained.
I hope you enjoy working 12 hour days, 6 days a week.
Programming could be considered skilled labor, and companies know that competent programmers are valuable - just look at their wages compared to any other non-management job. I'm not really sure why anyone is worried about putting together a tech worker's union, we're some of the best treated employees. Plus it's a worker's job market right now, so if you hate your current company, it's not impossible to get a different job.
This is what companies would try to replace unionized programmers with, but as we've seen in almost every outsourcing story, you get what you pay for. I think companies are finally catching on that PajeetWare java codemonkeys are an awful investment compared to just hiring a few locals.
