It's because of big pay, highly mobile employees, hiding the real role of the HR and this false sense of security compared to the rest of the workplaces despite all these lay-offs from the big companies. Also, whenever a unionizing attempt happens, the companies go into crackdown mode and have their multitude of ways to either fire you with a bogus reason, remove your post citing "restructuring" or pulling you on a dead career track and demonize you in front of your colleagues with the usual "we care about our employees and everything can already be resolved through HR" speech. And moreover, many of these issues have a direct cause the Work Laws of the respective countries

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s because we can just leave for better positions.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago

okay, do that then and stop complaining i guess?

[–] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There has been chatter on Blind for the devs and engineering at my company unionizing. It's a long shot. But I'm all for it.

[–] cikano@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

While I completely agree, the meme would not really be different with a unionised workplace

[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 years ago

Unions only make sense when you are easily replaceable as a worker so you don't have any barganing power on your own. As an individual IT worker you can usually tell your boss to fuck off if things get bad and just look for a new better job...