cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/25996640
If you want to read about this on a website that isn’t full of ads and doesn’t just present as an ad for their own news app, here is the source material by Blind.com.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find a link to the raw survey data and I generally don’t trust surveys that aren’t accompanied by raw data.
I went looking for the data because 1901 respondents across 32 of the largest companies globally doesn’t seem like it would be statistically representative of any one company. If you assume the same sample size per company, which it probably isn’t but again that’s unverifiable because I couldn’t find the raw data, you’re looking at, what, 60 employees for a company the size of Google?
Look, I’m a recovering tech worker who left the industry because of the toxic work culture, having spent a quarter of my life at one of the good ones. Even there I saw the value of unions. No matter the industry, workers deserve the right to collective bargaining and fair treatment. But I don’t think surveys with unverifiable data help move that conversation forward.
Now, if I’m mistaken and someone finds a source link to the data that we can all verify, I’ll happily take another look and reconsider my opinion on it’s validity.
odium@programming.dev 2 months ago
Damn, wtf are intuit and GM doing to their engineers?
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Maybe they just forgot to brainwash them with anti-union propaganda
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
This is likely the case with GM given that their manufacturing is unionised. Engineers just got a demo what that can do for them last year. They aren’t getting the raise assembly workers got.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Silicon valley is full of H1B visa holders who can’t speak up politically or risk deportation.
huginn@feddit.it 2 months ago
As someone who previously worked at Google - they didn’t have any antiunion propaganda.
They just, like, paid well, had top tier benefits, great perks, and had a good work life balance.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Idk about intuit but GM is probably a result of their union coworkers getting awesome Bennie’s.
IamAnonymous@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The union autoworkers get good benefits like overtime pay for work over 8 hours. Union working come in at 6, then take a fixed breakfast and lunch break and then leave at 2:30. Anything over that will need approval and overtime pay. I’m surprised Ford and Stellantis isn’t alongside with GM.
aeki@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Funny, seeing them at the top gave me a favorable impression of them, but seems to have caused the opposite for you. My impression was probably due to, like someone else said, feeling like maybe they’re not being drilled with as much anti-union propaganda.
But I’m from a place where you have to go out of your way not to be part of a union.
Archer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
10% of people are insane so they even got significant chunks of the crazy vote for GM and Intuit