The workers are the industry. The greedy shareholders are the problem.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2026
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No industry in the history of industry has ever wanted a union.
You get people pushing for unions because you deserve unions.
The tech industry is such a shitshow right now they deserve unions.
Hard agree. Every other day a big tech firm will conduct sweeping layoffs of thousands or tens of thousands of employees. These companies are not on the verge of bankrupcy.
Depends on how you define "the industry." The tech workers are the ones driving the actual production of goods and services, so it's pretty reasonable to say that the workers are the industry.
Obviously this headline assumes that CEOs, managers, and investors are "the industry" in question, but I don't necessarily agree.
My union made my healthcare much better and is the reason behind my raise. Its great!
Perhaps the majority of workers in the industry should have better say as opposed to the corpo parasites who want to suck the workforce dry of their net worth
THE CEOS DONT
FTFY
UNIONIZE
The industry never wants it.
They should have unionized 20 years ago when it was easy instead of crowing about how useless the humanities were.
I have always found it odd that tech/IT is not more unionized and supervised by some sort of professional order.
Doctors, nurses, construction workers, airline pilots etc are all deemed important trades and professions that require some form of professional order to supervise and attest the competency of the labor.
But for some reason IT is all like "you watched some Youtube videos, got certified by Cisco 15 years ago? All set to configure the security of our healthcare network". I am exaggerating obviously but still... IT is so intertwined in everything some sort of professional order would make sense. And union definitely.