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Comment by yepitwas | Hacker News Reader

It's been such an obvious self-own for tech workers not to capitalize on any of the multiple booms they've seen, and unionize.

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Unionizing may help some things, but it won't make it easier for the unemployed to get employed.

It could help with networking and it could serve as a way to get rid of totally fake AI applicants since they aren't going to be union members.

Unions drive wages down in the electronic vehicle sector by forcing pensions and dissuading RSUs. Most Tesla workers make far more than their unionized GM counterparts

Also unions are mostly there to allow the lazy low performers to coast. We already have a serious problem of this but making it hard to fire them will make everyone’s life worse.

Unions don't make it impossible to fire people. As long as management does their job and documents correctly there's zero issue firing workers who aren't doing their job.

We need to forgo unions and straight up legislate forms of workplace democracy. People do not have meaningful control over a massive part of their lives and if democracy is good enough for state governments, it's good enough for private enterprise.

employers preempted that option long time ago. h1b visa workers cannot be in an union.

Less than 17% of tech workers are on H1Bs. They can't exactly scab for the other 83%.

Wow, is it really ~15%? No wonder unemployment is so high.

Tech unemployment was also low with similar #s of H1Bs.

Pretty sure that short term trends drive it more than long-term visa holder counts.

curious how is a 'tech worker' being defined here ?

> h1b visa workers cannot be in an union

There's a law that says this?

I’m with you on the first part. They should have capitalized.

If there was a union there would be no boom to capitalize on.

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