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'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla::After the UAW won contracts with the Big Three, it's seeking to unionize 150,000 workers across a dozen companies including Tesla.

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[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They’re leaving because they got a better paying gig or less work/fewer hours for the same amount of money

nah they're just part of the last layoff

[–] davetapley@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

This. I'm a computer programmer, never been in a union, but after twenty years of startups I cannot believe how good it is to be at a small, stable, employee owned company.

Only looking back do I realize that the people doing the actual work were never in control, and just how damaging that is.

To pour you life and soul into building something (time, and time again), and then have it taken away from you again, and again.

Never going back.

[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago

Unions can't really prevent layoffs unfortunately, but can guarantee severances. However most tech employees already receive generous severance packages.

Software engineers also still sit at half the unemployment rate of the rest of the US despite the layoffs throughout this past year.

I'm very pro-union, I just don't think they belong in tech given how much power engineers already have, and that power being entirely dictated by the ability to jump ship yesterday.