Rising anger over widespread layoffs, disillusionment with Big Tech, and threats of mass displacement by AI have tech pros taking a good, hard look at unions.
Also other than a few outliers (gaming) IT and development jobs have been pretty good in recent history. There hasn’t been much push for change until the circumstances shifted.
Valid point. Thus far, tech workers in general have had a pretty comfortable relationship with the executive class by comparison to other industries. That made it a little to easy to dismiss the risks of being that cozy with them without some kind of protection.
Also other than a few outliers (gaming) IT and development jobs have been pretty good in recent history. There hasn’t been much push for change until the circumstances shifted.
Valid point. Thus far, tech workers in general have had a pretty comfortable relationship with the executive class by comparison to other industries. That made it a little to easy to dismiss the risks of being that cozy with them without some kind of protection.