Were anti-union? How is that possible? Why would anyone other than the CEO of the company be anti-union? So many things I don’t understand about America, but this union stuff has to be somewhere in the top 10.
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RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 1 year ago
It’s so amazing to see a comment like this. For years and years, the tech industry workers were heavily anti-union. I’m glad to see the sentiment turning around.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
You are correct but many workers in the US (tech and otherwise) are only aware of unions as historical tools of organized crime/corruption, or are libertarian (which gets higher representation in tech circles) and believe the free market will provide for them and/or that unions excessively harm companies. There are likely other reasons but these are reasons I’ve heard from people I know.
These views are reinforced by corporate and libertarian (which is of course funded by corporate) propaganda.
Montagge@kbin.social 1 year ago
No, it still is. Most of the people I work with are boomers that tried to kill unions or upper middle class genx or millennials that think they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. The tech bros have definitely not gone away.