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Azal@pawb.social 4 hours agoI have a friend in programming. He says it’s baffling that the entire industry is anti-union and tends to be pretty pro-corporate.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s because companies have tricked them into thinking that joining unions means they wouldn’t get paid as well or would restrict their promotions. Also they had it pretty good for a long time as their jobs were in demand which gave them more negotiating power so they got paid better and had more benefits. But now that their jobs are put in danger by AI they are kinda fucked since they individually don’t have the same power anymore, power which they would have as a unionized block.
Azal@pawb.social 3 hours ago
I agree on the tricking them, but there’s another part I look at. Basic fucking pattern recognition. The jobs have stopped being the in demand for a while now, and they’re not so much on the negotiating power. But the idea of a union is still apparently more anathema and are shocked at these mass layoffs that keep happening.